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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”

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#DLNchat: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education?

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Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.” The result can be jarring.”

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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There’s some shared information across them, but we have multiple FAQs going, we have lots of advice. It started with technical advice, like how do I use Zoom? At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. We need to be thinking about that.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

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In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. If you’re interested in transforming your own community into a citywide campus for learning, you can find out more information on how to do that at the Cities of Learning website.

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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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It was explicitly designed to be different than the traditional school, where it was primarily about delivering instruction, delivering information that students who then dutifully wrote down on paper and recited it back. We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population.

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