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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. In some ways a key question for MOOCs, even after all these years, is: Can other subjects be delivered online as well as computer science? We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

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The various pieces can work together or stand alone, depending on what colleges need, and the source code will be made open so that colleges can customize the tools to fit their own needs. “We Reaction at the event was enthusiastic, but sober about the challenges of bringing the tools to their campuses. “A

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

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And they’re non-science majors taking an online class. Habitable Worlds , an introductory science course that Arizona State University professor Ariel Anbar has taught online for five years. And he’s working with a network of faculty who are using HabWorlds to teach science on their campuses. Welcome to.

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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. And what I mean by that is, learning is really complex. What got you into this?

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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). Springer Science Business Media. Hannafin, M.,

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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. 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.

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$1-Billion Effort to Rethink Computer-Science Education at MIT Sparks Interest—and Protests

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Cambridge, MA— MIT is in the midst of a $1-billion effort to reshape how it teaches computer science, in what some say may be a model for other colleges. First is that MIT needs far more computer-science professors to meet the demand by students and researchers. I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.”

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