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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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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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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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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.