5 Questions for MIT’s Vice President for Open Learning, Sanjay SarmaSanjay Sarma is the Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, and the co-author of Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn. Along with…Apr 28, 2021Apr 28, 2021
Spring Clean Your Classroom: Clear Out These 8 Myths About Online CommunitiesTalking to instructors who are new to Yellowdig, we often find there are a number of misconceptions around student participation and the…Apr 27, 2021Apr 27, 2021
The New Horizon of Opportunity with Yellowdig’s Group UpdateSo many more options to configure your Community! In addition to the system being configurable as it always has been, instructors now have…Apr 26, 20212Apr 26, 20212
The Topic is TopicsIn my face-to-face classes, I’d look around the classroom and try to intuit whether or not my students “got” what I was talking about by…Mar 23, 2021Mar 23, 2021
Yellowdig Student and Instructor Fall 2020 Survey ResultsAt the end of the Fall 2020 semester we asked Yellowdig instructors to share a survey with their students, as well as fill one out for…Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
Yellowdig’s Freeform Points: Breaking Free to Enable Co-Curricular ActivitiesAlthough Yellowdig is mostly used to build community and engagement in the classroom setting, we have seen a number of uses that were…Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
A Student Perspective of YellowdigAt the center of Yellowdig is community and at the center of community are the learners. We value the experience and insights from students…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Yellowdig Product Update: LaTeX EditorYellowdig has always been focused on creating the best environment for any academic use case, from English to Biology. With this goal in…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
A Look into Gameful LearningDr. Ben Plummer got his PhD at the University of Michigan focusing on motivation and gameful learning. Now he works as a learning…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
Yellowdig’s New and Improved Instructor Certification CourseAt Yellowdig, we don’t claim for our technology to be magic. The real magic happens when you combine our technology with our data-backed…Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021
