Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. Again, OER has technological advantages it can exploit to achieve this. That happened in 2017.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

Teaching 96

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The rule—and that number—has many detractors , but the underlying principle is that it requires deep and focused work to achieve mastery. Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218