Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Complete digital courses offer a way to give students who might fall off track in large lecture classes more personal attention. “We Without opening learning platforms up to the research community, it’s hard to understand if and how they’re improving learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the university, says there are now between 10 to 15 Digital Learning Lab fellows who play similar roles in MIT’s MOOCs. They even interviewed the hosts of the popular TV show MythBusters in one section of the course to get the audience’s attention. Experiential textbooks?

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

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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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

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. Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

And that means making sure everyone writing computer code also pays attention to the cultural and ethical implications of their tools, the effort’s leaders say. It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I

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