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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He believes the student performance results will convince even skeptical educational institutions to adopt the model. Turning classrooms into learning laboratories For the learning engineers back at CMU, the goal is not to put digital tutors in every classroom.

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