Open Learning and Participation

Forgetting is a Feature, Not a Bug: How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT. “Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet of paper. Instead, he likens good teaching to growing a plant.

Open Learning

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Full Sail launches new camps for coding, robotics, gaming, and more

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.

Art

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5 components of a great hybrid learning program

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A strong, unified classroom (in person and virtually) is possible when you foster conversations, encouraging innovation, and establishing a safe and open learning environment. Use hybrid learning to enhance educational experiences. Make independent learning a key component.

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Full Sail launches new camps for coding, robotics, gaming, and more

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.

Art

Art Knowledge Participation Open Learning

Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

Learning

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EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

There are no admissions requirements for MicroMasters programs, and students who do well in them can use that success to help win admission to complete the full master’s at the participating institution. The concept is known as a “stackable” credential. “We He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

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.

Learning

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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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. Will It Work? The project has suffered a few set-backs.

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

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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Curate Classroom Curiosity with Inquiry-Based Learning

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. They can create their own list of questions, brainstorm in small groups, or participate in a whole-class discussion. These steps also work well for differentiation within the same class.

Social Studies

Social Studies Learning Math Writing

EdSurge Live: Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 1)

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But I think we're starting to see more and more data, and it’s become more precise, and there are things that students can do to actually engage with the data and become captains of their own ship, or at least participate in their own rescue. It's the students' data.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In an effort to incentivize these discussions, I offered students participation points for showing up and engaging. At that point, only one or two students did not participate. I currently have 16 students in the course and four opportunities for them to participate in a cogen dialogue. Hannafin, M., Land, S., & Lee, E.

Teaching

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In a 2012 experiment, for instance, teams of IT graduates participated in a timed competition where they solved as many “trouble tickets” — as user complaints are called in tech support — as possible in a set amount of time. And the approach produced graduates who vastly outperformed cohorts trained using traditional methods.

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