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Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Blum: At ACT (which acquired OpenEd),we’re focused on the question of: If you’ve identified the learning gap, what’s the best instructional material to help the student? Will it free up the day? from Shivon Zillis.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” The company, which provides public radio and related instructional materials to classrooms, has raised $1.55 The New York Times has more on the drama at the VC firm Xfund , which I’m only including here because Harvard. million total. million total.