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? These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam. Some track location data, pinpointing where the student is working.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Adaptive Learning As with a pinwheel set in motion, insights from many disciplines—artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, educational psychology and data analytics—have come together to form a relatively new field known as learning science, propelling advances in a new personalized practice—adaptive learning.
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
JUNE 9, 2020
Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.
Edsurge
JANUARY 24, 2022
If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. Folks in the crypto space are questioning whether industries can be reimagined to operate in ways that are “less extractive, and more community-owned,” Allen says. That includes higher education.
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2018
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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