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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Campus Technology : “ Udacity has announced a partnership with a ride-sharing service in China to host a $100,000 prize competition to find the best machine learning strategy to improve customer experience.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Cengage Unlimited – Marketing ploy or significant change in strategy?” ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.” Chromebooks.

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