article thumbnail

How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

Edsurge

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.” Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course.

Testing 120
article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

EdSurge Live: Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 1)

Edsurge

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that. And you can start almost teaching them how to level up.

article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

But the effort has has also drawn protests by some students and professors, who are questioning how well ethics will be integrated into the effort and are criticizing the influence of a controversial donor. It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I

Science 159