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DECEMBER 19, 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting learners across the world, we’ve witnessed the growing need for hybrid learning, an education option that combines the benefits of a traditional in-person classroom and online learning. The future of hybrid learning is bright, and the benefits are unmatched. I’ve seen it for myself.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

The platform will be built on open-source software and materials that universities have already developed—mainly a combination of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative’s platform, called Torus , and online materials from Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration, called ETX.

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JULY 30, 2019

DeVaney wouldn’t reveal much about the innovation team’s particular plans, other than to say that the university intends to offer three new online and hybrid degree programs in the fall and to launch multiple degrees per year over the next five years.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make Zoom breakout groups less boring?

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MAY 8, 2019

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. Reaction at the event was enthusiastic, but sober about the challenges of bringing the tools to their campuses. “A

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MAY 18, 2017

She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Candace, you're an early pioneer of using AI and adaptive-learning tools with the online learning initiative that you started at Carnegie Mellon University and now lead at Stanford. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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