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 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere.

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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. The hardest part for me is learning to just sit still in the chair so long,” he says. The toolkit has been used to build online tutors that have demonstrated significant gains.

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