Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

These courses also take advantage of the online medium more fully than courses on other subjects, since many allow students to upload coding projects that are then automatically graded. In other words, students aren’t just passively watching videos—they’re doing projects, and they get instant feedback from the software.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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. The courseware could also save professors time, since it automatically grades assignments.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. These neatly packaged courses also raise questions about the role of faculty, and who decides what students need to learn. Half of college students fail to pass algebra with a grade of C or above.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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