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OER is Growing at Religious Colleges, But Raises Unique Challenges

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One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. But at religious institutions, adapting open materials for a faith-based curriculum can be trickier.

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

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The university announced in March that it would release the software, but officials held this week’s gathering, along with a group called the Empirical Educator Project , to give an overview of the tools and how to use them. It’s going to take a university saying, You need to be trained in curriculum and instruction,” she said.

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Help Teachers Truly See Their Students Through Usable, Connected Data

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to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs. By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc.

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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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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. I also hope it allows me to maintain flexibility and an open mind. That makes hiring a tricky and detailed process, especially for my first hire.

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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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Ithaka S+R , and a group called Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics , or TPSE Math. To explore how adaptive software can help change teaching styles, impact completion rates, and create a new model for synchronizing the curriculum between two and four-year colleges. The mission? The Maryland project is working with.

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$1-Billion Effort to Rethink Computer-Science Education at MIT Sparks Interest—and Protests

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It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” Model for Other Colleges MIT is not the only college considering a reset of how computer science is situated in its curriculum.

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