Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. The hope is this isn’t going to be an ordinary class or lecture series for you,” Santos tells students in an introductory video within the MOOC. The science of psychology has a lot to say to people about how to live.”

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. Course of the Future.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

How do we maximize their learning?" UC Davis has been piloting adaptive-learning software from the Open Learning Initiative in its introductory biology classes to create more active-learning environments than a standard lecture hall. "What can we do when we see 600 students at a time? Molinaro asks.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. Learning-centered teachers create environments that positively impact students through shared governance of the learning space.

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Edsurge

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 Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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