The Open Learning Initiative’s director, Candace Thille, was recently profiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education for their series 12 Tech Innovators Who Are Transforming Campuses:
Treating Higher Ed’s ‘Cost Disease’ With Supersize Online Courses
Oh my God, she’s trying to replace me with a computer.
That’s what some professors think when they hear Candace Thille pitch the online education experiment she directs, the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University…
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Torus Version 33: Smarter Insights, More Powerful Adaptive Learning, and Streamlined Course Management
Torus Version 33 is one of the platform's largest releases to date, introducing the Instructor Intelligent Dashboard, significant Adaptive Pages enhancements, a comprehensive Template Management overhaul, accessibility improvements, and 151 total platform updates designed to improve teaching, learning, and course administration.
Torus Version 32b: Accessibility, Mobile Refinements, and High-Impact Fixes
Torus Version 32b is a focused addendum to Version 32, delivering meaningful improvements in accessibility, mobile responsiveness, admin workflows, and instructor analytics. This release also resolves several high-impact issues affecting proficiency filtering, course copying, and activity bank metadata. While compact in scope, 32b strengthens usability, reliability, and inclusivity across the platform.
Torus V.32 Accelerates Admin Workflows and More Actionable Instructor Analytics
Adds Score-as-You-Go feedback, redesigned scheduling, LTI integration, and cleaner data exports for smoother teaching workflows.
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