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DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We really need to spend time thinking about how to motivate students, how to make them curious. You're motivated, dopamine flows.

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JULY 11, 2023

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.” “We've been trying to think about what are the deeper applications of this and what are ways that we can use those applications while keeping a human being in the loop?”

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

She and her colleague John Robertson, a digital education librarian, sought advice on how faculty at a religious college could add religious components to an existing OER textbook and then share that back with the OER community, without having it perceived as ulteriorly motivated.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The third is motivational — the fuel that keeps students pushing forward when they get stuck on difficult material. Getting substantial gains in learning, Koedinger says, takes “getting the details right” in all of those areas. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.

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