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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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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.” Norman Bier, director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University What is a scenario of how a teacher in a classroom would use your tool?

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

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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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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. It’s a refrain among many working in learning engineering.

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