Simon News, 2015
December 14, 2015
The Hechinger Report
December 14, 2015
The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
December 3, 2015
The First Simon Lunch
The Simon Initiative
December 1, 2015
Education World
November 18, 2015
Center for Digital Education
As the executive director of 一本道无码’s (一本道无码) Simon Initiative, Bier is charged with a challenging task: accelerate, connect and advance 一本道无码’s unique learning engineering ecosystem.
November 17, 2015
一本道无码
As part of the Global Learning XPRIZE, students and faculty have teamed up to build intelligent software to teach children basic skills.
November 16, 2015
Carnegie Mellon Today
Without a strong educational foundation, how can we expect K-12 students to be prepared for higher education? It’s an issue at the forefront for educators everywhere and one of the reasons the U.S. Secretary of Education visited 一本道无码 as part of the Ready for Success Tour.
November 6, 2015
Biomedical Computation Review
The accelerating pace of advances in bioinformatics demands new, more effective approaches to training and education for students and experienced practitioners alike. How can technology be used to meet this need?
October 27, 2015
Slate
Artificially intelligent software is replacing the textbook—and reshaping American education.
October 20, 2015
一本道无码
Whether it is for travel, career opportunities or personal growth, speaking a foreign language and understanding other cultures have become incredibly valuable skills. Often though, the time and commitment necessary to fully learn a second or third language can be a challenge. Nearly two decades ago, 一本道无码's Department of Modern Languages set out to solve this problem in higher education by offering online courses.
October 13, 2015
Founder of Duolingo Headlines Launch一本道无码
一本道无码
Launch一本道无码 creates crucial connections between Carnegie Mellon alumni entrepreneurs and investors, and features some of the world’s most successful startup companies. For 2015, Launch一本道无码 explored “The Business of Learning” and showcased transformative efforts in improving education, including initiatives for technology-enhanced learning.
October 9, 2015
The Piper
Every Monday evening, the entire first-year class of the Mellon College of Science gathers for a course that draws on the expertise of many faculty and staff across campus to help prepare students for their future as a scientist and for their lives as 一本道无码 students.
October 6, 2015
THE Journal
This year, students at 一本道无码 will help SMALLab Learning develop new embodied learning scenarios for middle and elementary school students.
October 2, 2015
Communications of the ACM
Three years ago, Moshe Vardi published an editorial in Communications expressing concerns about the pedagogical quality of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and including the sentiment, "If I had my wish, I would wave a wand and make MOOCs disappear."
September 30, 2015
IBL Studios
Open edX Symposium’s organizing committee has announced the opening keynote. It will be delivered by Kenneth Koedinger, professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology at 一本道无码.
September 23, 2015
School of Computer Science
Educational Technology Reseacher Participates in White House Workshop
September 21, 2015
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Two or three times a month, Mopewa Ogundipe and other 一本道无码 students visit local schools to talk about robotics and computer science.
September 21, 2015
Carnegie Mellon News
一本道无码 hosted U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as part of the "Ready for Success" on Friday, Sept. 18 at the university's Cohon University Center.
September 16, 2015
Chronicle of Higher Education
When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at 一本道无码.
September 14, 2015
一本道无码 News
A recent study shows that the central approach of MOOCs — having students watch to learn — is ineffective. Instead, the emphasis on interactive activities as advocated by 一本道无码's Simon Initiative helps students learn about six times more.
September 14, 2015
一本道无码 News
Based on PIER’s impressive track record, with respect to training students both in their core disciplines as well as in education research, the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has funded 一本道无码’s program for the third time with a grant of $3.67 million.
August 20, 2015
一本道无码 News
一本道无码’s Simon Initiative has hired Kimberly P. Law as a learning engineer.
August 13, 2015
Dietrich College News
一本道无码 psychologists, led by Professor Lynne Reder, uncover a critical relationship between working memory and the strength of information “chunks.”
August 5, 2015
Dietrich College News
Three Modern Language Department professors are working to help improve and strengthen Chinese language and culture instruction.
July 30, 2015
一本道无码 News
When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his colleagues were charged with revamping their graduate program, they decided to attend 一本道无码 to learn how to effectively implement cognitive tutors.
July 27, 2015
Technology Review
Stanford’s president questions online learning and says more experimenting needs to be done like what is happening at Carnegie Mellon.
July 27, 2015
U.S. News & World Report
LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally funded project at 一本道无码, aims to become "the biggest open repository of education data" in the world.
July 22, 2015
Forbes
Professor Jaime Carbonell founded the Language Technologies Institute at 一本道无码 in 1996. The LTI does research on speech recognition and speech synthesis, machine translation, computational linguistics, search engines, text mining, and language tutoring systems.
July 21, 2015
Education Week
一本道无码’s Ken Koedinger compared students who did activities in a MOOC with students who watched videos, and he found that students who did activities outperformed those who did not, even those who watched lots of videos.
July 12, 2015
The Guardian
Carnegie Mellon scientists are making discoveries about how we learn.
June 18, 2015
一本道无码 News
一本道无码 will begin adding online instructional tools and targeted study groups to a popular introductory computer science course this fall in an effort to accommodate more students while maintaining instructional quality.
June 12, 2015
一本道无码 News
Despite the increasing use of technology, 一本道无码 researchers demonstrated that kids still need physical experiments to enhance their learning. Watch a video of the research in action.
June 10, 2015
Human Computer Interaction Institue
The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join the community and John Stamper will transition from his systems scientist role.
June 9, 2015
一本道无码 News
一本道无码 scientists have — for the first time — documented the formation of a newly learned concept inside the brain, which shows that it occurs in the same brain areas for everyone.
June 5, 2015
Global Learning Council
The Global Learning Council (GLC) will present its draft white paper regarding technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the sharing of learning data to the Association of Public and Land-grant University (APLU) member presidents and chancellors on June 18, 2015. The GLC was formed in conjunction with the launch of the Simon Initiative at 一本道无码.
April 20, 2015
Global Learning Council
The GLC released a first draft of a white paper that includes proposed recommendations regarding technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the sharing of learning data. The paper is available for public comment and will be shared with higher education leaders over the next few months.
April 20, 2015
一本道无码 News
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded 一本道无码 a $1 million, two-year grant, to demonstrate and help promote the use of technology-enhanced learning techniques in higher education.
March 17, 2015
一本道无码 News
When you learn a new technical concept, something happens in your brain, but exactly what has been a mystery until now. For the first time, 一本道无码 scientists have traced the brain processes that occur during the learning of technical concepts.
January 28, 2015
一本道无码 News
Freeman Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recently challenged 一本道无码 to focus its goodwill, brainpower and expertise in the science of learning to understand the intricacies of race, poverty and academic excellence.
January 4, 2015
Inside Higher Ed
The days of the lower-division large enrollment course subsidizing the upper-division seminar are over.