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. She'd walk into the classroom, and the poor teacher wouldn't know what to do because the kids walked in knowing Spanish. So what did he do?

Science 167

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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.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. What’s new in your approach?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

There are four main types of instruction that you can use to encourage inquiry-based learning in an upcoming lesson. A successful approach to inquiry-based learning takes students from the structured beginnings to a more open learning style. Investigation: Students present the project to their teacher and peers.

Social Studies 80

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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.

Teaching Assistants 105

Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Good news: Lots of schools automatically update programs teachers use on school devices. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

Schools 107

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

They’re not letting their teachers shine,” she argues. Barbara Oakley recorded lectures for her MOOC on Learning How to Learn in her basement. But Bell says the work gives her a new perspective on where students need help, which makes her a better teacher online and off.

Teaching 167

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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.

Teaching 96

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Candace, you're an early pioneer of using AI and adaptive-learning tools with the online learning initiative that you started at Carnegie Mellon University and now lead at Stanford. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

Peer Review 106

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

However, the scholarship of teaching and learning suggests the importance of using learner-centered pedagogical strategies and the powerful results such strategies have on student learning (Campbell et al., Learning-centered teachers create environments that positively impact students through shared governance of the learning space.

Teaching 52

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. The company’s research shows that this Socratic approach leads to the most lasting learning.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218