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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’? How One Provider Taps 2,500 Volunteers

Edsurge

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations. I have to say, a week of beta testing is not nearly enough.”

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“We expect innovation in every organization except for the one we work in.”

The Principal of Change

When they handed me their iPhone, I realized that it was an iPhone 4, and confirmed that with them. Compared to my iPhone 7, it seemed so small, and to be honest, quite slow. When the iPhone 4 came out, I believe it was the first version of the phone that had cameras on both sides. It would also be my first iPhone.

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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

Edsurge

EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. And that helped open the door for new approaches both on and off campus. So what happened here?

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What types of questions are you asking?

The Principal of Change

What “iPhone Keyboarding” class did they take to learn that? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Think about it…Have you ever seen anyone in their teens on a mobile device, furiously typing away? You know the answer…they didn’t. They learned on their own.

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If we know better, we have to do better. #IMMOOC

The Principal of Change

Look at the new iPhone 7. But compare it to when the first iPhone came out and some people were saying it was one of the best inventions of that year (2007). September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Not necessarily now. People are complaining that it is not forward thinking enough , and I get that.

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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

Innovation is solely a “product” People believe the iPhone was innovative. Yet it is the thinking that created the iPhone in the first place that was the innovation. This is not something that should be done by the few but should be the norm in school. It is in some ways.