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MARCH 10, 2025

According to new research from Project Tomorrow and Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, large print books can improve students reading achievement levels and attitudes toward reading. Although large print may not be the standard for textbooks (yet), it has appealed to a wide range of students.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Content-Based Literacy with Imagine Learning EL Education : Find out more about an instructional approach that focuses on teaching content rather than comprehension skills in isolation.

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MAY 17, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a VR experience that lets students step into the virtual set of a final scene in the classic Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane.” At Harvard University, researchers gathered a “Harvard Future of Teaching & Learning Task Force” that issued a report in recent weeks. “We

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Will you release a white paper, or tools? We think we'll have research and tools. We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” It's written by three economists out of the University of Toronto. What kind of output do you think you'll have?

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. It’s a cause that Thiel has long championed, and a friend there tipped Gibson off that the libertarian billionaire was looking for a researcher at his fund. in it at Oxford University.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. And there's the tougher question: "If remote education is worth the tuition, then what is the worth of college?" The paper was published by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab at MIT.

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