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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. The Maryland project is working with. Will It Work?

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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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’

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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. In that scenario, professors simply assign the book and courseware and require students to buy them.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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