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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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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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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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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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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