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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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For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. A screen capture of the Acuitus digital tutor interface.

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