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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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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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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

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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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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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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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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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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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Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a New Kind of College?

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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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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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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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