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		<title>&#8220;Transforming undergraduate chemistry&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new formula for success in undergraduate chemistry  REAL CHEM, a Gates Foundation-funded project between the Open Learning Initiative and Arizona State University's Center for Education Through eXploration (ETX), aims to change General Chemistry from a "weed out" course to a "bring along" course that improves outcomes for all students. LEARN MORE]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>See Torus, OLI&#8217;s latest authoring and delivery platform!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hal Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Watch the November 4 Torus Community demo recording:   Mark your calendars for this Friday, November 4, 12:30 - 2pm ET, and join the OLI Team for the next Torus Community Meeting. We'll give a demo of the new Torus platform and highlight new functionality in place for course delivery, authoring, iterative]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hal Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A free pilot of OLI's new research course was announced at the What Works Global Summit 2022.  A new OLI course titled "Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis" (SRMA) was announced at this year's What Works Global Summit 2022, hosted by the Campbell Collaboration. This graduate-level research course is a 2-year development effort between The]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hal Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dean Scheines discusses the OpenSimon learning engineering community        Dr. Richard Scheines chats about Learning Engineering with Enrollment Growth University's podcast, discussing how The Simon Initiative's Open Simon community is working to improve learning. Dr. Scheines is the Faculty Lead of The Simon Initiative and Dean of]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMU working to close the &#8220;opportunity gap&#8221; for students</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hal Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMU working to close the "opportunity gap" for students        A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-computer interaction to galvanize a community of teachers, mentors and parents around improving]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hal Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2019 Applications Now Open  Simon Initiative LearnLab Summer School The LearnLab Summer School is an intensive one-week course focused on creating technology-enhanced learning (TEL) experiments and building intelligent tutoring systems. The Summer School will provide you with a conceptual background and considerable hands-on experience in designing, setting up, and running technology-enhanced learning]]></description>
		
		
		
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