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

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She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Turning classrooms into learning laboratories For the learning engineers back at CMU, the goal is not to put digital tutors in every classroom.

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