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How Do You Make Zoom Breakout Rooms Less Boring?

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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. That gives the instructor more visibility into what groups are working on than might be possible for you to observe in a face-to-face class.

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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.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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(Photo source: Remake Learning ) That deconstructed approach may even be more crucial in learning engineering than it was for flight, since teaching and learning arguably have more variables. The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors.

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