Learning with 'e's
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
This doesn't mean that robots have no place in the classroom though. Robots (or intelligent systems) can be very useful when they are tasked to complete some of the functions that teachers previously performed. If it's a facsimile, then interaction is entirely dependent on the instructions (programming) behind the robot.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? I tweeted in response to the homework algorithm "hack" that if it's not worth a teacher reading the assignment/assessment, then it's not worth the student writing it.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.
Learning with 'e's
APRIL 6, 2013
Anant Agarwal, president of EdX, (Harvard and MIT''s non-profit making arm that runs MOOCs), says that the software will be a boon to learning online in the future, because it will allow students to rewrite and resubmit their essays time and again, to improve their grades. How else are they going to assess and mark all those students'' work?
Hack Education
JULY 7, 2017
” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.”
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2018
Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.” The result can be jarring.”
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.
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