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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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What College Professors Should Know About Learning Science

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Researchers are gaining a better understanding of how people learn—both what works and what doesn’t go so well—in the classroom. One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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How to find, curate, and assess OER

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The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) recently released a Guide to Quality Instructional Materials to support the move from print to digital materials. Department of Education has its #GoOpen District Launch Packet , and Open Learning has a free online course (about 15 hours) on how to develop OER content.

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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. Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

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Forgetting is a Feature, Not a Bug: How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

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The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT. Sarma just co-wrote a new book called “ Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn.” Take how memory works, for instance.

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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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17, more than 100 people gathered to hear speakers present how their organizations are embracing the future of digital learning. She described the advances in cognitive science, including the work of Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Claude Steele, that have led her to work on creating even more supportive and effective learning environments.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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The platform will be built on open-source software and materials that universities have already developed—mainly a combination of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative’s platform, called Torus , and online materials from Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration, called ETX.

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