Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2019
I created a tech catalog for students to explore and choose from, partially based on Georgetown’s enterprise suite, including a learning management system (Canvas), blogging (WordPress or other), student-run web domains, web annotation (Hypothesis), collaborative writing (Google Suite), discussion boards (Discourse), and videoconferencing (Zoom).
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.” 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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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. They would write skits and they would act them out. The next step is to apply that research in actual college instruction. So what did he do?
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. 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?
Teachers Pay Teachers
MAY 7, 2025
A successful approach to inquiry-based learning takes students from the structured beginnings to a more open learning style. Bring inquiry-based learning into everyday instruction Inquiry-based learning can be part of everything you do in the classroom. Inquiry Based Learning Writing, Posters, Book, and More!
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.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit. I collect data all the time from my students, but it’s qualitative data,” says John Warner, a longtime writing teacher and author of The Writer’s Practice.
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