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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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

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For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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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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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

One thing I do think is going to happen out of this: We know that, for example, our grandparents who lived through the Great Depression had a completely different attitude about things like food and money than we did, because they didn’t have much food and they didn’t have much money. We need to be thinking about that.

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

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Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. Ask students to bring examples from the real world into the classroom.” RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning?

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

Bryan Alexander

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Good things are happening and possible.”

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Some problems are already being solved in creative ways by educators setting an example of the way forward, while others are more difficult and haven’t yet been solved. Makerspaces/Online Learning: In just one or two years, experts predict makerspaces and online learning will be common in schools.

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