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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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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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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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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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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

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These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. I get more insight into students.”. Promises and Pitfalls.

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Marco Molinaro Asks, 'How Do We Maximize Learning?'

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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. Molinaro asks.

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

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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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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

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Obviously larger class sizes would require either larger groups, more opportunities for cogen throughout the semester, or possibly offering cogen dialogues as an extra credit opportunity in very large lecture classes. Student-centered, open learning environments: Research, theory, and practice. Hannafin, M., Spector, D.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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