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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

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For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. To me, that's not what learning is about. I felt disconnected from my students.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Among the new updates includes Blackboard Gradebook integration.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard.

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