Remove Knowledge Remove Open Learning Remove Secondary Education
article thumbnail

Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

Edsurge

What the students don’t know is that the course is part of an ambitious experiment that includes community colleges, Maryland’s flagship university, the nonprofit education consultancy. Ithaka S+R , and a group called Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics , or TPSE Math. The mission?

Textbooks 128
article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

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.