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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by cloudier on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:52PM (#23021323)
This is something I’m interested in. What did the course cover — things like active and passive learning, and constructionism? Does the book Ultralearning cover most of the same things? (Here is a summary: https://www.njlifehacks.com/ultralearning-by-scott-young-boo...)
Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by rsfern on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:58PM (#23022137)
The course is CMU’s 38-801 (evidence based teaching in STEM). I don’t think there is a course website, but CMU’s course design page has a pretty good overview of the material covered [0]. It was a cool project-based course that covered a lot of different teaching methods (including active learning), assessment and feedback, and course design. A lot of this was motivated by primary teaching and learning literature. We also read through this book [1], which I found pretty interesting.

The learning principles in the summary you linked are also major themes we covered in the course, but I think the emphasis is a bit different because the 38-801 audience is primarily future educators (who are of course also lifelong learners)

0: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/index.html 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557656/