eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Developed by Full Sail University with the goal of creating an engaging and open learning environment that allows children and teens to explore creativity through storytelling, art, and technology, Full Sail Labs provides young creative talent with the knowledge to become digital content creators.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2023

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Or if you still have Evernote but now use OneNote, delete Evernote’s shortcuts and downloads.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, also says that while his institution is not working on a MicroBachelors degree, he thinks the concept is a natural extension of micromasters, which MIT already offers in partnership with edX. He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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MAY 12, 2022

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Or if you still have Evernote but now use OneNote, delete Evernote’s shortcuts and downloads.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017.

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Edsurge

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. The next step is to apply that research in actual college instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

She referenced three examples of creative uses by IDEO U students, from Jess in Melbourne, who formed her own in-person local learning circle to employees at an architecture firm in Italy who used a prototyping leader’s guide to help them work on a common project during their weekly happy hours.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

It’s just the first step in a semester that will cover open learning, digital literacy, mobile, gaming, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality—and more. Various aspects of social justice also arose, including inequalities of access to digital educational content and accessibility/disability issues.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

We know that personalized and adaptive approaches can be effective,” says Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI), which develops adaptive courses that use open educational resources and provide student feedback. But there was no change in their odds of successfully completing a course.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs. By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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. What can we do when we see 600 students at a time? Molinaro asks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Hoffman’s interest in exposing faculty at Seattle Pacific University to free and open learning materials is largely due to expensive textbook prices and the interest she hears from students for cheaper alternatives. The critical part, Hoffman says, is “really trying to clarify what it is that you are sharing back.”

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Edsurge

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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the university, says there are now between 10 to 15 Digital Learning Lab fellows who play similar roles in MIT’s MOOCs. I don’t know that I would want to do the MOOC thing as my primary job, but as a secondary thing it’s very satisfying.”

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MAY 12, 2021

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Or if you still have Evernote but now use OneNote, delete Evernote’s shortcuts and downloads.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. That makes hiring a tricky and detailed process, especially for my first hire. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The Maryland project is working with.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

A successful approach to inquiry-based learning takes students from the structured beginnings to a more open learning style. These steps also work well for differentiation within the same class.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Student-centered, open learning environments: Research, theory, and practice. Student perceptions of effective teaching traits and strategies. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 30 (2), 161 176. Hannafin, M., Land, S., & Lee, E. Spector, D. Merrill, & J.E. Merrienboer. 641-651).

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JUNE 9, 2020

Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit. The toolkit has been used to build online tutors that have demonstrated significant gains.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.”

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