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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

Edsurge

EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. And that helped open the door for new approaches both on and off campus. So what happened here?

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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

For example, is using a “scantron” to mark multiple choice exams innovative? Innovation is solely a “product” People believe the iPhone was innovative. Yet it is the thinking that created the iPhone in the first place that was the innovation. It is in some ways.

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The Power, Promise, and Pitfalls of Networks in Learning – Alec Couros Kicks of #ettipad San Diego

EdTechTeacher

One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. ” From there, Alec shows examples of student directed learning where they are able to do amazing things when provided with devices. ” – Seymour Papert He then compares iPhone to a lightbulb. They really do change things.

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Do it yourself education

Learning with 'e's

With its lurid red cover and aggressive image of a fist gripping a pencil (I would have suggested an iPod Touch or iPhone instead) while wearing a wrist band that proclaims DIY U, the books holds a lot of promise. It's a book that has been recommended to me several times over, so it was long overdue that I laid my hands on a copy.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Maybe it will.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” The phone was not a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which have been recalled because of battery explosions, but an iPhone 6 Plus. Raise $146.1