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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

He spent a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and he has written about education trends outside the U.S. EdSurge: You've spent more than 20 years writing about higher education: What's a trend that's now central to understanding where higher education is headed that wasn't even on the radar when you got started?

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

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of The quotation is from 2012.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Speaking of child exploitation, this via The Financial Times : “ Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour.” ” (No surprise, my review of “2017 trends” will be very different.).

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Only “1.86 unique users have enrolled 4.1 ” So hardly anyone at all, I guess.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. Upgrades and Downgrades. Apple had a thing.