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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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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.” Also, the kinds of questions and feedback that they're giving us is helping us better improve the course materials. Do not use those, please.

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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. inquiry based learning , some of which use no technology at all).

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

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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.