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MAY 15, 2023

Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. 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. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

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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. That happened in 2017.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Full Sail Labs, an educational experience designed for students from 1st to 12th grades with a focus on technology, science, art and media. Today’s students discover and understand technology at a very young age. Full Sail University on Dec.

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MAY 12, 2022

Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. 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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MARCH 12, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience.

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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. The next step is to apply that research in actual college instruction.

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JULY 10, 2016

The companies building courseware products are developing increasingly complex algorithms that track students’ progress and recommend next steps in their learning paths. While Anbar admits the online shift changed his role from a lecturer to more of a coach, he’s adamant that he—not technology—maintains ownership over the class.

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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 believe very strongly in open-source technology. Open source” means no more licensing for products. By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc.

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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.” “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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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. Reaction at the event was enthusiastic, but sober about the challenges of bringing the tools to their campuses. “A

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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.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, also says that while his institution is not working on a MicroBachelors degree, he thinks the concept is a natural extension of micromasters, which MIT already offers in partnership with edX. He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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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. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make Zoom breakout groups less boring?

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

We envision a school where each student progresses along an individual learning continuum and educators focus on developing skills, such as collaboration, perspective taking, technological adeptness, problem solving and adaptability. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. The unknown is scary, and not everyone is ready to jump into it.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. inquiry based learning , some of which use no technology at all).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. 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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JUNE 19, 2018

As a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a fellow in MIT’s Digital Learning Lab, part of her time is spent teaching an in-person course at MIT on Python and introductory computer science. Ana Bell is one of those instructors.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Hoffman’s interest in exposing faculty at Seattle Pacific University to free and open learning materials is largely due to expensive textbook prices and the interest she hears from students for cheaper alternatives. The critical part, Hoffman says, is “really trying to clarify what it is that you are sharing back.”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

How do we maximize their learning?" UC Davis has been piloting adaptive-learning software from the Open Learning Initiative in its introductory biology classes to create more active-learning environments than a standard lecture hall. What can we do when we see 600 students at a time? Molinaro asks.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Mark, how would you describe the ideal scenario of how this technology might play out at colleges, and how a student might be helped by AI on campus? Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Student-centered, open learning environments: Research, theory, and practice. Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (pp. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 30 (2), 161 176. Hannafin, M., Land, S., & Lee, E. Spector, D. Merrill, & J.E. Merrienboer. Springer Science Business Media.

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JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. At first sight, one might think they were employees coding the software, rather than the ones learning from it.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” Adrienne R. She said she increasingly hears from employers that they are looking for students who can dive into code.

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