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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. Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. He left the company in 2014.)

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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So, I'm not sure I have a lot to say about what happened, what stories were told in 2019. Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. WeWork closed its K-12 school this year.

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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I won’t write the series in 2019 either, so this is the very last Hack Education Weekly News. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) Correction: This is the Class of 2019.). ” From Fast Company : “Amazon’s HQ2 could eliminate 1,500 affordable housing units in NYC.” on Coursera.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” ” (Among those education companies in Binary Capital’s investment portfolio : Educents.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.