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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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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?” Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company).

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

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“We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So How do we create online tutors who are approachable and we want to learn from?’”

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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

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That reality was highlighted during a live online discussion EdSurge held this week in partnership with Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum. At Duke, we stood up three websites right away— Keep Teaching , Keep Learning , and Keep Working —and one for staff, one for faculty, and one for students.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Drones, Personalization, the Quantified Self. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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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. Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders! The result can be jarring.”