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

Edsurge

Students should also be involved in decision-making efforts around what data is used and how that data is used, said Megan Raymond. There is a lot of data to sort, and Fendley, our special guest reminded us there’s only more to come. As Patrice Torcivia tweeted, it’s “critical to combine this data with human interaction.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

Yes, I went to ASU+GSV – my first time at the event in the event’s nine year history. ” Investors go to the event for private meetings. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” It was everything y’all said it would be.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

Hack Education

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. There were discussions of using MOOCs on liberal arts campuses and developing distance learning programs for outreach or to make up for enrollment shortfalls. Online learning is on the rise.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology. ” Robots are coming for our jobs.