Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

17, more than 100 people gathered to hear speakers present how their organizations are embracing the future of digital learning. She described the advances in cognitive science, including the work of Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Claude Steele, that have led her to work on creating even more supportive and effective learning environments.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT. Sarma just co-wrote a new book called “ Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn.” Take how memory works, for instance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The platform will be built on open-source software and materials that universities have already developed—mainly a combination of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative’s platform, called Torus , and online materials from Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration, called ETX.

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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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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

Inquiry-based learning isnt just the latest teaching trend. So what is inquiry-based learning, and how do you use it in your instruction? Well break down the best inquiry-based learning strategies that you can start using today, along with high-quality, low-prep inquiry-based learning activities for any subject and grade level.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2017

But as Horry County learned, any organization whose userbase includes young people and children is an especially tempting target for ransomware. Young users are simply less mindful of potential consequences, and more likely to open suspicious email and attachments, which is how most attacks begin. Learn to spot red flags.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2023

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. If you aren’t backing up videos, you can probably save all of your files to a $10 flash drive or your Google cloud. Empty the trash.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

The system, which harnesses AI, recently won first place in the annual XPrize Digital Learning Challenge , which boasts a purse of $1 million split among winners. “In 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.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. I also hope that this book will help you focus on what is important and provide a roadmap in your efforts to learn how to teach online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, also says that while his institution is not working on a MicroBachelors degree, he thinks the concept is a natural extension of micromasters, which MIT already offers in partnership with edX. He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2022

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. If you aren’t backing up videos, you can probably save all of your files to a $10 flash drive or your Google cloud.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Meanwhile, online and hybrid learning keep growing and developing. Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience. A rising sense of academia in crisis further complicates our practice.

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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. Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. Course of the Future.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of many in a classroom packed with students, his learning struggles often went unnoticed. He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Barbara Oakley recorded lectures for her MOOC on Learning How to Learn in her basement. 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. They’re not letting their teachers shine,” she argues.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Capitol Learning Academy (CLA) plans to launch in Washington D.C. 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. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn,” he adds. The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. The Maryland project is working with.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. But at religious institutions, adapting open materials for a faith-based curriculum can be trickier.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Students think learning is synonymous with digital. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Empty the trash. Don’t even look in it. Be tech-savvy!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. The first segment included two guests with different perspectives: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” Adrienne R. She said she increasingly hears from employers that they are looking for students who can dive into code.

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