Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Each faculty member does that in their own way, but our question was, ‘What does that look like in terms of a textbook?’” Hoffman recently brought her question to the gathering of open education resource users and advocates at the OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY earlier this month.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Spieler asks each group to come up with three questions they might answer with the data set, relying on only one variable. Mostly he’s asking questions and listening to reports from each group. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. The system, which harnesses AI, recently won first place in the annual XPrize Digital Learning Challenge , which boasts a purse of $1 million split among winners. “In And honestly, it can vary a lot.

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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. Now the question is, How do we get it out there?” he said of the faculty he worked with before.

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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

JUNE 19, 2018

In some ways a key question for MOOCs, even after all these years, is: Can other subjects be delivered online as well as computer science? 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.

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