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MARCH 27, 2019

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online. Candace Thille, Head of Stanford Open Learning Initiative (OLI) Researcher Candace Thille of Stanford University is notable for developing the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie-Mellon University, which has moved to Stanford.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

We envision a school where each student progresses along an individual learning continuum and educators focus on developing skills, such as collaboration, perspective taking, technological adeptness, problem solving and adaptability. That makes hiring a tricky and detailed process, especially for my first hire.

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JULY 10, 2016

We know that personalized and adaptive approaches can be effective,” says Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI), which develops adaptive courses that use open educational resources and provide student feedback. But there was no change in their odds of successfully completing a course.

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JUNE 19, 2018

They’re essentially self-help courses grounded in some serious body of knowledge, and their topics are similar to self-help books that dominate print best-seller lists. Her course has drawn more than a million students, and a New York Times article called its popularity in part “a testament to her skill at presenting the material.”

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JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. But at a university? “We

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