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Hello, fellow learners! My name is Ginger Hamblin and I am an intern here at Excelsior University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) blog, HOOT. The purpose of the Intern’s Corner is to provide a student’s...
From 2017-2018, the total number of people using the Online Writing Lab more than doubled! In 2018, the OWL logged 535,642 users, a 102% increase from the previous year. Total sessions also doubled by...
This term I am doing an internship at Excelsior University and as luck would have it I report to the online writing lab department. To start off this term, I thought I would try...
By Jason BrownThe move to Open Educational Resources (OERs) has increased exponentially over the last few years with providers like Lumen, OpenStax and Saylor helping pave the way for the creation and distribution of...
A Birds-Eye ViewWelcome to the first quarterly newsletter for the Excelsior OWL! The fall is traditionally a time for harvesting the crops that have been sown and tended during the year. The OWL team...
By Jason BrownWhen students end up in my Freshmen Composition course, I find that many of them come in with the expectation that I will tell them what to write (in terms of a...
September 2018 was the Excelsior OWL’s best month ever! Total users, sessions, and pageviews far surpassed the last record set in October 2017. The total number of users for the month topped 77K, while...
The Booth Ferris Foundation has awarded Excelsior University a $200,000 grant to create a Center for Writing Excellence. The two-year project began on September 1 and will advance the College’s strategic initiative around Writing...
by Teri GergenLess than a minute…that’s how much time attendees are given to scan the round tables and choose a lightning round presentation to attend at the eLearning conference sponsored annually by the Instructional Technology...
by Christie AllredThe more I use OER’s (open educational resources), the more I feel better about not only saving students money, but really having up-to-date and reliable textbook sources for students. The Excelsior Online...