OLI and Simon Initiative’s OpenSimon Toolkit in the news
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Last week The Simon Initiative announced its OpenSimon Toolkit, an effort to make Carnegie Mellon University’s learning engineering techniques, tools, and materials openly available. Here’s some of the press OpenSimon and the Open Learning Initiative have received.
- Carnegie Mellon University: OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
- EdSurge: With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’
- Pittsburgh Business Times: Carnegie Mellon launches teaching toolkit for classrooms
- Inside Higher Ed: Carnegie Mellon Rolls Out Open Learning Science Tools
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