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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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The rule—and that number—has many detractors , but the underlying principle is that it requires deep and focused work to achieve mastery. The hardest part for me is learning to just sit still in the chair so long,” he says. Instead, they want to deploy ways to better measure learning, no matter what teaching style a professor prefers.

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