Search results for author:"Candace Thille"
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Cold Rolled Steel and Knowledge: What Can Higher Education Learn about Productivity?
Candace Thille; Joel Smith
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning Vol. 43, No. 2 (2011) pp. 21–27
Higher education is simply not making substantial progress in addressing its most significant challenges: educating an increasingly diverse body of students while containing the cost that is putting postsecondary education beyond the reach of a...
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Surfing the tsunami: Faculty engagement with the Open Learning Initiative
Candace M. Thille
(2013) pp. 1–191
There are two major discussions emerging out of higher education. The first is the dual challenge of increasing completion rates and reducing the cost of instruction. The second is about the impact of technology on higher education, a topic brought ...
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The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness of the OLI Statistics Course in Accelerating Student Learning
Marsha Lovett; Oded Meyer; Candace Thille
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2008, No. 1 (2008)
The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is an open educational resources project at Carnegie Mellon University that began in 2002 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLI creates web-based courses that are designed so that students ...
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Assessment and Instruction: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Diana Bajzek; Judy Brooks; William Jerome; Marsha Lovett; John Rinderle; Gordon Rule; Candace Thille
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 560–565
In this paper we describe our research and development efforts to integrate assessment and instruction in ways that provide immediate feedback to students and meaningful data for our Digital Dashboard for Learning (DDL). The DDL is an instructional...
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The Future of Data-Enriched Assessment
Candace Thille; Emily Schneider; René F. Kizilcec; Christopher Piech; Sherif A. Halawa; Daniel K. Greene
Research & Practice in Assessment Vol. 9 (2014) pp. 5–16
The article addresses the question of how the assessment process with large-scale data derived from online learning environments will be different from the assessment process without it. Following an explanation of big data and how it is different...