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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. He jokes that he usually uses an app on his smartphone to randomly assign groups, since all human decisions involve bias. inquiry based learning , some of which use no technology at all).

Textbooks 129
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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. Round 3: Finding Common Ground Successful phone calls are immediately followed by a homework assignment. I’m looking for a unicorn.

Beliefs 123
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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. It’s a refrain among many working in learning engineering.

Education 218