Author: Louise Yarnall
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When adaptive learning is effective learning: comparison of an adaptive learning system to teacher-led instruction
Adaptive learning systems personalize instruction to students’ individual learning needs and abilities. Such systems have shown positive impacts on learning. Many schools in the United States have adopted adaptive learning systems, and the rate of adoption in China is accelerating, reaching almost 2 million unique users for one product alone in the past 3 years.
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Supporting and Measuring Career Readiness: Hot topics, Common Challenges, and Practical Resources
Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia convened representatives for a workshop to discuss how educators and researchers are addressing the development and measurement of career readiness.
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Working Stronger and Smarter: A Handbook on Theory and Techniques for Developing Employability Skills for Technicians
This exploratory study conducted a set of in-depth interviews with technician workforce experts over 18 months.
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Designing Smartphone Microlessons to Improve the Cybersecurity Workforce
This is a poster presented at the 4th annual Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace principal investigators’ meeting.
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Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
This brief takes a close look at grit, tenacity, and perseverance, factors that underlie the tendency to strive for success at long-term and higher-order goals and to persist in the face of challenges, obstacles, and setbacks.
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CIRCL Primer: Data science education
This primer is an overview of the early state of data science education in grades K-12.
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Lessons Learned From Early Implementations of Adaptive Courseware
To address the urgent need to improve student outcomes in developmental and general education courses, higher education institutions are turning to new learning technologies.
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Empowering Adults to Thrive at Work: Personal Success Skills for 21st Century Jobs. A Report on Promising Research and Practice
From interviews with experts and a review of research literature, the report provides resources and recommendations to advance practice, research, and policy.
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Innovating Pedagogy 2015
This fourth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency and are having an increasing effect on education. We proposed a long list of new educational terms, theories, and practices.
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Big Foot or Footprint Tracking? How Employer Footprint Shapes Education Partnerships
Critical for constructing realistic memoranda of understanding, the “footprint” perspective can help researchers critically review data from environmental scans, design realistic partnership activities and track progress.
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AR-Mentor: Augmented Reality Based Mentoring System
The system combines a wearable Optical-See-Through (OST) display device with high precision 6-Degree-Of-Freedom (DOF) pose tracking and a virtual personal assistant (VPA) with natural language, verbal conversational interaction, providing guidance to the user in the form of visual, audio and locational cues.
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Applying the Brakes: How Practical Classroom Decisions Affect the Adoption of Inquiry Instruction
If college science instructors are to use inquiry practices more in the classroom, they need both professional support to foster comfort with the pedagogy and practical ways to engage students in inquiry. Over a semester, we studied 13 community college biology instructors as they adopted bioinformatics problem-based learning (PBL) modules in their classrooms. The study…