Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. The Maryland project is working with.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

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.” “We've been trying to think about what are the deeper applications of this and what are ways that we can use those applications while keeping a human being in the loop?”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

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.

Teaching 89

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 89

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University.

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