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Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, ...

Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to educate myself on our financial crisis. To that end, I dropped in on a class at Yale that examined real estate finance and the roots of the federal ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A growing number of students say they prefer asynchronous learning over other course delivery methods ...

IIT Madras Water Quality Course: Participants can attend lectures online or offline and access recorded sessions. Their understanding will be evaluated through online assignments and quizzes.

Jeremy Gleick is a sophomore in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. May 7, 2012 Any system that helps people learn is worthwhile, and online courses definitely help people ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

In recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs), through the likes of Coursera, have attracted hundreds of thousands of students from across the world. Many teachers are using a "flipped" ...

Research is now showing what works — and what doesn’t — for students forced online by the pandemic. Better course design should be the next step. Digital technology and COVID-19 have transformed the ...

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