Category: Blog
Virtual Labs: One Instructor’s Success Story
While virtual labs have been around in various forms for many years now, their use has recently been thrown into the spotlight with the COVID pandemic as most colleges and universities took their courses online. For many STEM classes especially, a lab component is required. Traditionally, labs have… Continue Reading
GTF Grant Success Story #1: Shrey Bhakta
On October 1, 2022, DigiTex passed its one-year milestone for the Greater Texas Foundation grant, Harnessing Course Sharing to Support Guided Pathways at Scale. Having submitted our one-year report to Greater Texas Foundation, we are pleased to report that much progress has been made… Continue Reading
Reflections on the First TxQMC Connections Conference
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex, and System Lead for the Texas Quality Matters Consortium Before I came to work in higher education, I spent time as a community economic developer. In small towns and cities, I identified… Continue Reading
All Learning Should be Digital
“La Gard Electronic Digital Lock Teardown” by eevblog is marked with CC BY 2.0. By Judith Sebesta, Executive Director, DigiTex Digital learning is defined by the Department of Education as… Continue Reading
Reflections on the Launch of an Open Educational Resource
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex On International Women’s Day (March 8, 2022), I launched my first Open Educational Resource OERigin Stories: Pathways to the Open Movement. Continue Reading
Double Stuf OREOs, Star Trek, and your Success
By Rick Walker, Executive Director, STARLINK STARLINK serves as a partner organization to DigiTex, also operating under the auspices of the Texas Association… Continue Reading
Cheyney University: A Tribute to the United States’ Oldest HBCU
by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex In February of 1837, during a time when slavery was widespread and freedoms scarce for people of African American descent, our nation’s first historically black college emerged to stand counter to the times. Founded by… Continue Reading
Hall & Oates & Theatre Appreciation: Contributing to OERTX
by Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., Executive Director, DigiTex As some readers may recall, I was a professor of theatre for many years (see Ready Player One, Hamilton, and Me: “Liveness,” Mediated Communication, and… Continue Reading
Weighing the Pros & Cons of Inclusive Access
In January of 2020, shortly after I joined DigiTex and right before the COVID pandemic began, I registered to take a Continuing Education course in basic Accounting and Bookkeeping. The course was meant to help me dust off the accounting skills that I had learned many years ago… Continue Reading
How a Book Club Inspired New DigiTex Equity Statements
By Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., Executive Director, and Ursula Pike, Associate DIrector, DigiTex Last summer, we had the privilege of participating in a Reading Club hosted by the… Continue Reading