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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. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. Turning classrooms into learning laboratories For the learning engineers back at CMU, the goal is not to put digital tutors in every classroom.

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