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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. The parent, a professor at USC, showed him how to game the software: write long answers, use lots of proper nouns. That robot grading is degrading. I'm an ed-tech critic.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Based on each student’s actions, when a student gets stuck, the system automatically suggests strategies on how to get out of it and proceed to mastery. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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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. Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. He left the company in 2014.)

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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

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Perhaps the Silicon Valley tech billionaire should learn how to build one himself—and sign up for a class from Udacity. Students who complete this introductory course will be eligible to enroll in the more advanced Self-Driving Car or Robotics nanodegree programs. Roy has more details about the program in this blog post.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

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If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. They’re communities of people who share a pot of cryptocurrency and who decide by voting how to spend that money—kind of like a co-op. That includes higher education. Not everyone is sold on this vision, though.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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