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Catalyst Celebrates OER Usage and Awareness

A recent report from Bay View Analytics highlights the growth in awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) at higher education institutions across the United States.
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Jimmy Wadman Jimmy Wadman

6 Benefits to Using Labflow Reports

Catalyst Education has a four-year history of helping science departments modernize their lab instruction into the 21st century using Labflow, our powerful learning platform, combined with our unrivaled scientist-led faculty support.

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James Caras James Caras

Custom Lab Manual Publishing: Our Best-of-Breed Program

Catalyst Education has a four-year history of helping science departments modernize their lab instruction into the 21st century using Labflow, our powerful learning platform, combined with our unrivaled scientist-led faculty support.

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James Caras James Caras

Catalyst Celebrates OER Usage and Awareness

A recent report from Bay View Analytics highlights the growth in awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) at higher education institutions across the United States.

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James Caras James Caras

Effective Methods to Mitigate Cheating

I speak with faculty constantly, and the acceleration of cheating comes up in most of those conversations. The difficult part is that most people—and plagiarism detection solutions—are focused solely on catching students when they cheat…

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Dane DeSutter Dane DeSutter

Accelerating Research in Lab Education

I recently presented at ACS Spring 2022 to share a preview of the work we’re doing here at Catalyst. Joined by Caitlin Zumalt, one of our stellar Faculty Success Managers, we discussed how Labflow can help accelerate research in laboratory education…

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James Caras James Caras

Easing Financial Pressures for Lab Courses

After visiting with dozens of department heads throughout my career, I’ve found that many are under financial pressures and looking to deliver lab courses at a reduced cost to the department...

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James Caras James Caras

Increase Your Department’s Research Throughput

Throughout my career, I’ve been to more than 100 different universities to visit with science-teaching faculty and give department presentations. I hear a common refrain from department heads and faculty: Lab TAs spend too much time grading lab reports instead of doing research…

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