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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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Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Even so, we’re still a long way from having a mature practice of learning engineering in place.

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