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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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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.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Below is an edited and condensed version of the conversation, or watch the complete interview.