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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Just before professor Barry Spieler enters the classroom at Montgomery College to teach an introductory statistics course, he looks at a data dashboard and gets a sinking feeling. The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. The mission?

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Here is a recap of the event, adapted from a blog post by NovoEd : Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean, IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard, dean at IDEO U , says her university’s imperative is teaching creativity and problem-solving. To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. Public and charter schools schools are bound to rules and even laws that dictate how and who to hire to fill teaching positions. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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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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. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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