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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company).

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

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Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. To Derek Bruff, a visiting associate director at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, the push to create an ideal personality for a digital tutor reminds him of a previous moment in online learning.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. You just couldn’t convince them that online learning is really an important part of the educational arsenal that does harden our infrastructure. We need to be thinking about that. But we’re not caught up to that now.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

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She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. Spring Summit, The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning.

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#DLNchat: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education?

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Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders! The result can be jarring.”