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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. In an interview, she jokes that she’s “not a top-tier university person,” but that she thinks many of the best instructors today are at institutions like hers. And they do.

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

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Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

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Learning-centered teachers create environments that positively impact students through shared governance of the learning space. In learner-centered pedagogical practices, the focus and attention is on learning what and how the student is learning (Weimer, 2013). Hannafin, M., Land, S., & Lee, E. Spector, D.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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(Photo source: Remake Learning ) That deconstructed approach may even be more crucial in learning engineering than it was for flight, since teaching and learning arguably have more variables. The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors.

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