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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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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Taking flight Learning engineers, such as Kenneth Koedinger of Carnegie Mellon University, like to point to the Wright brothers as inspiration. After all, for most of human history, humans couldn’t fly, and some said it could never be done. The toolkit has been used to build online tutors that have demonstrated significant gains.

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