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“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.”

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The NAACP endorses OER. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” No neoliberalism here. Move along.

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.” My most favorite lines simply must be these: “One of the early adopters of Imbellus was McKinsey & Company , the management consulting firm, which uses the scenario assessments to find job candidates. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. For its part, the OECD, the organization that administers the PISA test, has started surveying 10- to 15-year-olds’ social and emotional skills too.

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” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 More on the National Crime Victimization Survey via Politico. ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER. The company has raised $61 million total.

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Edsurge on the business of OER. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Assessing the dangers of AI applications in education” by Tony Bates. ” Tarena International has acquired the K–12 robotics company Wuhan Haoxiaozi Robot Technology (a.k.a. Edsurge on mindfulness in public schools.