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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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Building on the success and ubiquity of its online and blended-learning formats, the university is providing instructors with new technology, modular furniture, and incentives to explore and innovate teaching practices. “We

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New Research Proves Game-Based Learning Works—Here's Why That Matters

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A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education.

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. grabbed the top contributor spots, speaking to brain-based classroom design, computational thinking, and school culture. You know, that old “desk-and-teacher-at-the-front” set-up.)