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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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