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

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And the flair was fitting, since success will end up being based not so much on how well the software works, but on how well its creators can attract momentum to their cause—and change the culture of the academic profession to make teaching an area professors are excited to make discoveries around. It’s just that simple.”

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

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Obviously larger class sizes would require either larger groups, more opportunities for cogen throughout the semester, or possibly offering cogen dialogues as an extra credit opportunity in very large lecture classes. Student-centered, open learning environments: Research, theory, and practice. Hannafin, M., Spector, D.

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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. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. Taking flight Learning engineers, such as Kenneth Koedinger of Carnegie Mellon University, like to point to the Wright brothers as inspiration.

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