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Interview with Josh Jarrett of the Gates Foundation |
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How the Gates Foundation Will Spend Its Education-Technology Dollars:
"Folks are starting to turn their attention toward quality. For instance, the Open Learning Initiative, at Carnegie Mellon, represents what strategies afford themselves in an online context. The first thing they do is team-based development of courses, and then sharing those many times. We’re not stuck having to recreate the wheel in every classroom. A second thing that they do is rigorous data capture that informs the moment of learning for the student, that informs the instructor to know what to focus on in the face-to-face time, and that informs the course designer to know what parts people are really struggling with."
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Carnegie Mellon Will Lead HP-Sponsored Consortium Developing New Ways of Measuring Learning |
Research Aims To Transform Education To Better Meet Needs of Today's Students
Educators at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a global consortium funded by the HP Catalyst Initiative to develop new technologies for measuring students' competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The six members of the consortium include institutions of higher learning in France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as a New Jersey high school.
The Measuring Learning Consortium will be led by Candace Thille, director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon, and CMU's Ananda Gunawardena, associate teaching professor in the School of Computer Science's Computer Science Department. The consortium is one of five supported by HP in 2010 as part of its Catalyst Initiative. Collectively, they aim to transform classic STEM education into learning experiences that better meet the needs of today's students.
"Our consortium will develop new technology-based methods for measuring students' understanding of STEM coursework," Gunawardena said. "We expect to follow the lead of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, which has demonstrated that computer-based tutoring programs can provide a detailed assessment of a student's strengths and weaknesses." The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is operated jointly by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh with support from the National Science Foundation.
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For Innovation to Occur, Colleges Need a Big Push |
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Candace Thille, Director of the Open Learning Initiative was quoted for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the full article: "For Innovation to Occur, Colleges Need a Big Push, Scholars Say".
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Computing at Carnegie Mellon course moves online. |
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The introductory course Computing at Carnegie Mellon goes online, leaving behind the traditional in-class instruction in favor of daily support sessions. The new course format is expected to enable students to work independently at their own pace. Read the full article on The Tartan. |
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The Carnegie Mellon Approach: Doing More |
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The quest to transform higher education is on everybody's mind, and now it was The New York Times' turn to write about it. In An Open Mind, author Katie Hafner explores the impact that Open Educational Resources are having across the globe. In this article, our very own Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer, Joel Smith was quoted saying:
"...if the goal is to truly give access to high-quality postsecondary education to most people, well, for that you need to do a lot more."
Read this and more on An Open Mind in the section titled The Carnegie Mellon Approach: Doing More. |
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