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

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Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) March 27, 2018. Students should also be involved in decision-making efforts around what data is used and how that data is used, said Megan Raymond. Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018. There is a lot of data to sort, and Fendley, our special guest reminded us there’s only more to come.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Andrea Zafirakou has won the 2018 Global Teacher Prize. Via Campus Technology : “Recipients of 2018 McGraw Prize in Education Revealed.”

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The future includes good (human) teachers

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A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. Like robots on an automotive assembly line, English AI can work 24 hours a day, doesn’t require benefits and can’t threaten its employer with a strike (yet). The future is upon us.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring.

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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This is the last Hack Education Weekly News of the year because next week I am publishing a very abbreviated review of 2018, and I won’t need to study in detail what happens each week anymore. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Oh.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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One Problem: The Data Aren’t All There.” ” One huge problem with the new mobile version of the FAFSA : you can’t use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on it. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. (National) Education Politics.