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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. inquiry based learning , some of which use no technology at all).

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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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She laid out their belief that in a world of constant change, those who are best equipped are those who generate new ideas when the path is unclear. To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online.

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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. These resources are all firmly in line with the mission and beliefs of CLA, and provide background knowledge that we feel is imperative for all faculty who work with us.

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EdSurge Live: Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 1)

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Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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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. 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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