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FEBRUARY 7, 2017
He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I’m
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AUGUST 23, 2016
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. Minerva prefers the more intimate approach of small seminars with 15 to 20 students, Katzman says. You can’t be a superhero, Burns told the audience.
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DECEMBER 13, 2017
Capitol Learning Academy (CLA) plans to launch in Washington D.C. next fall as a nonprofit private elementary micro-school, starting with ages seven to nine and expanding in both directions to serve a capacity of 150 students over the coming years. To supplement this tuition model, CLA will campaign annually for fundraising.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2017
More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. College advising systems are trying to use predictive analytics to increase student retention. Mark, how would you describe the ideal scenario of how this technology might play out at colleges, and how a student might be helped by AI on campus?
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JUNE 9, 2020
In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Simon argued that you would describe the process as “outrageous.” “If
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