Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. In some ways a key question for MOOCs, even after all these years, is: Can other subjects be delivered online as well as computer science? We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

And they’re non-science majors taking an online class. Habitable Worlds , an introductory science course that Arizona State University professor Ariel Anbar has taught online for five years. These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The various pieces can work together or stand alone, depending on what colleges need, and the source code will be made open so that colleges can customize the tools to fit their own needs. “We Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many faculty see introductory science courses as "gateway" classes to weed out students. 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.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My setting is education, but I believe this would also be beneficial in the sciences or other humanities classes. 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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

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 Carole Balcells, who helps develop curricula for Acuitus, puts it: “The one doing the thinking is the one doing the learning.”

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