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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. She has studied the reluctance that many professors have to turning to research to improve their teaching.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

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Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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My project also makes some of the information available in a machine-readable format instead of solely in a PDF. (It Of course, the Horizon Report dates back to 2004, so this is only a partial look back at its own history. Were they adopted? Were they rejected? The report does little to help us understand this.