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Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2019
Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience. We came up with related policies together, including protocols for my writing this very column.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2023
When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course. It's an adaptive course — think of it as an interactive high-tech textbook.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 6, 2018
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. They would write skits and they would act them out. Without planning it, somehow education evolved. So what did he do?
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make Zoom breakout groups less boring?
Edsurge
MAY 18, 2017
EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit. That data, he says, comes from him asking questions like ‘What did you learn this semester?’
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
And that means making sure everyone writing computer code also pays attention to the cultural and ethical implications of their tools, the effort’s leaders say. It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I
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