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4 Steps for Humanizing Personalized Learning

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That said, spending too much time in whole-group instruction creates a culture of dependent learning, leveraging outdated practices like lecturing or rote memorization. Complex instruction leverages open-ended tasks, specifically designed for diverse groups of learners.

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New Provider Offers Low-Cost Online Courses. But Will the Credit Transfer?

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While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Student assessments, Rasmussen says, are graded by “robots.”

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. That’s the engineering side of my brain. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

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Increasing Student Reading and Discussion in Higher Ed: A Co-creation Based Approach

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from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. A Model of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design: Exploring Desirability and Possibility. In Rust, C.

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Spaced Practice Works. A Learning Scientist Helped Me Understand Why.

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I didn’t want this investigation to result in the same practices—lecture, homework, independent practice and quiz—just over a longer period of time. How can I space out the learning in this unit to combat the compartmentalization inherently promoted by curriculum designers?

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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If you’re looking for a crash course in digital education specifically, recordings from Stanford’s lecture series on Education’s Digital Future are all available for free online. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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Increasing Student Reading and Discussion in Higher Ed: A Co-creation Based Approach

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from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. A Model of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design: Exploring Desirability and Possibility. In Rust, C.