Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

His strategy is that, with any luck, at least one of the students in each group will have enough prior knowledge of statistics to do the in-class project even if no one in the group did the required homework. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative.

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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.” Norman Bier, director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University What is a scenario of how a teacher in a classroom would use your tool?

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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.

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Edsurge

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. Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the university, says there are now between 10 to 15 Digital Learning Lab fellows who play similar roles in MIT’s MOOCs.

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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. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We The key,” says Bier, “is doing so in an instrumented way.”

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