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Unlocking the Advantages of AI Tools for Grading Students

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Traditional grading methods often involve manual review and assessment of individual assignments, which can be labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly in large classes or online learning environments. Consistency and Fairness: AI grading systems offer unparalleled consistency and fairness in evaluating student work.

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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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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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“We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment. Last year one of its courses ranked fifth in total enrollments of all MOOCs offered on Coursera, a MOOC platform.

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The Future Belongs to Online Learners — But Only If Programs Can Help Them Succeed

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He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” Coursera’s tinkering with engagement tools points to a stark hypothesis about what may be hurtling toward the American higher education system.

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Kadenze’s March Toward Online Art Education, 1 Year Later

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Joining the MOOC party As formal college education becomes more unaffordable, online education has become a popular alternative or supplement. Some schools Kapur talked to have been resistant to online education, unsure of how in-person learning can be replicated in a virtual environment, especially in art disciplines. “10

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The persistence of distance (learning)

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In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies.

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When Personalized Learning Is a Logical Fallacy

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Personalized learning is not a product you can buy — it’s a set of strategies that teachers can implement, sometimes with the help of products that are designed to support those strategies. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto. That’s an argument that my.