eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 10th most-read story focuses on creating a great hybrid learning program.

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Edsurge

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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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.

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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.” Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.

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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. But he says his research into learning science has led him to better value how fundamental teaching and learning are to being human.

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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. At a recent faculty gathering at my university, I had our faculty read an article by James M. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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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. I want to make it easy for teachers to read student data and the Ed-Fi data model does that. By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc.

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