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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. The Maryland project is working with.

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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. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. It’s a refrain among many working in learning engineering.

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