Beyond Math and Stats: Pieter Roos’s experiment with Grasple in Engineering Education
Grasple’s mission is to make STEM learning accessible. The University of Twente already uses Grasple in its math courses. But what about other STEM subjects? Can Grasple be used as an effective educat …
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Grasple’s Math and Stats Tool is now WCAG 2.2 AA Compliant!
Accessibility has been one of Grasple’s core values from the very beginning; it’s why we’ve built our platform to support the collaboration and co-development of quality open educational materials, an …
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How to Get Started Teaching with Grasple
“Grasple is an incredibly user-friendly platform that significantly simplifies course management for instructors, especially in mathematics and STEM disciplines.” - Boyan Kostadinov, Professor at New …
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Level Up Before the Semester: The Power of Brush Up Courses
It often happens that there is a broad variation in the skills and knowledge of students within a course. This can be a result of various educational backgrounds, but can also be related to their affi …
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Variations on Implementing Blended Learning, by Educators for Educators
Embedding blended learning in teaching is becoming more and more varied: from doing homework online to building interactive hybrid classrooms on site. In the earlier stages (especially during the pand …
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On a Mission to Educate the World
TU Delft is one of the first institutions to have shared their own material on Grasple. What motivated them to make their exercises openly accessible? How did they arrange the process? What does the d …
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Sharing Institution Content On Grasple - FAQs For Open Education
Answers to questions that educational institutions may have when considering publicly sharing their content on the Grasple online platform.
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Empower Learning By Openly Sharing Your Institution’s Collaborative Content
This article explores the growing trend of openly sharing educational materials, despite the challenges involved. It provides examples of how to overcome obstacles and highlights the benefits of shari …
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Grasple Teacher Day 2023
On June 20th, educators from various higher education institutions in the Netherlands gathered at the CommandantsWoning (COWO) in Amsterdam for our 2023 edition of the Grasple Teacher Day. After two y …
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Adaptive learning and Open education: A Match made in heaven?
What is adaptive learning? When reading about the subject, many definitions appear that also determine most of the pros and cons. You can see these in these three examples of definitions from differen …
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3 key learnings of Grasple’s transition to a new CEO
In the video below, Elisabeth and Pim discuss the transition. This blog expands on the video and highlights three key learnings that emerged from handing over leadership of a growing organization.
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Co-creating OER in Seven Different Patterns
Sourcing or creating teaching materials of good quality takes time - time that individual educators often cannot spare. Turning to traditional publishers, which provide copyrighted materials guarantee …
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How to Determine the Quality of OER in 6 Steps
There are a growing number of open educational resources (OER) available on the Internet. While this is good news for educators and learners, it can also be overwhelming to determine the quality of th …
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STEM Education: Using EdTech to find OER and Create Quality Content
The rise of EdTech is transforming higher education. With EdTech’s digital approach, educators and students can create, share, and find high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). The result is an …
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How to Incorporate Open Education in your Course
In the last few years, open education has quickly gained momentum. But with its success, new challenges arise. Educators turning to open education often feel overwhelmed or don’t know where to begin. …
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Pros and cons of using OER
Open educational resources (OER) come in many different forms. In some cases, it's debatable to what extent the resources are actually open or if they possibly represent an occurrence of "Open-washing …
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Five Characteristics to Identify Whether Learning Resources are Open
Because of its positive image, OER became a buzzword in the educational field and, as a result, many resources call themselves 'open' while lacking the fundamental characteristics of truly open resour …
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What is OER and for who?
In recent times, the term Open Educational Resources (OER) is a familiar one; whether you are a parent, teacher or student. But it may not always be clear exactly what open educational resources are a …
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Grasple and OpenStax are now partners
After adapting their learning materials for years, Grasple is now officially a partner of OpenStax: Rice University’s educational technology initiative and leading publisher of open educational resour …
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How to create interactive exercises for Vector Calculus
When it comes to math, there are strong indications that traditional lectures and simply ‘instructing’ students do not suffice. Vector Calculus is no different[1]. To help students fully grasp vector …
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Understanding and implementing remote active learning in 2021
Picture this. You’re giving an online lecture about Linear Algebra to a group of first-year engineering students. When you’re about to explain more about invertible matrices, you notice that most of y …
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Community Teacher Days - editions 3.1 and 3.2!
On November 25th and 26th we hosted the third edition of Grasple Community Teacher Days! Grasple Community Teacher Days are an opportunity for educators to exchange experiences, best practices, and ch …
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Grasple Teacher Day May 2020
On May 7th 2020, Grasple organised its second Teacher Day. It’s an event where teachers share their experiences related to online practice and assessment. This time it was held fully online, due to co …
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TU Delft releases 535 open exercises on Linear Algebra!
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and Grasple have worked together to make Linear Algebra content available to everyone for free. 535 online exercises have been made available under a Creative …
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Grasple Teacher Day April 2019
On the 4th of April, Grasple organised her first Teacher Day in the Teaching and Learning Labs at the Utrecht University. Over twenty teachers came together to talk about blended learning, open educat …
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A solution for training problem solving?
Ranging from math exercises, to engineering problems and doing proofs, training students in solving math problems can be challenging. If you teach math or statistics, you will certainly recognize this …
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In-Class Experiment: Cola Tasting
“Who think they can taste the difference between regular and diet coke?”
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