You are teaching a MOOC or using a more traditional virtual learning environment (VLE)? You want to enhance your course with external exercises and quizzes? And you want the external tool...
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An often-heard desire of both MOOC teachers and researchers is the ability to enhance their courses with sophisticated questionnaires. Here, I demonstrate a Qualtrics LTI bridge, that bridges your MOOC environment...
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If a heat map of educators’ current favorite innovations would exist, the term blended learning would probably be red-hot. Although the idea is trivial, it most frequently refers to combining traditional...
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Most platforms for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) do not allow their lecturers to use randomized controlled experiments to detect evidence-based improvements for their course. Regrettably, because the M in MOOC...
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A/B tests are not only beneficial in website optimization, but too have great potential in leveraging online learning. In this very (very) brief post on A/B testing in online learning environments,...
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Before going through the effort of installing OpenBUGS on a Mac, ask yourself whether you wouldn’t rather want to use JAGS, Stan, or the awesome JASP. If you...
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In 2015 the Dutch government initiated a National Research Agenda, requesting both citizens and scientific, corporate, and societal organizations, to formulate their most pressing questions for the future. The 12000 submitted...
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In today’s issue of Science, Gunter Maris, Han van der Maas, and I, motivate the urgent need to adapt Massive Open Online Courses to the individual learner:
We agree wholeheartedly...
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Managing out-of-class communication can be time-consuming. After having experimented with different approaches to optimizing communication amongst students and myself, I was elected for the UvA Grassroots program to explore the...
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R is free and open-source software for statistical computing and graphics. Learning how to use R requires effort, but pays accordingly. This quick guide to R on Mac OS X...
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LaTeX is a very powerful language for writing documents. Unfortunately, making sure you can work with LaTeX and exploit its full potential can be quite cumbersome. To my best knowledge,...
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