Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. 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.

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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. Photo source: Remake Learning ) That deconstructed approach may even be more crucial in learning engineering than it was for flight, since teaching and learning arguably have more variables.

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