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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. That includes higher education. Not everyone is sold on this vision, though.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner. The first is to hone and clearly scope out what students need to learn in any given situation.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Online learning is on the rise.

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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

Hack Education

MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” It can refer to a recording device, like the data-monitoring systems in planes, trains, and cars. And on and on and on.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. As a folklorist, of course, I did catch the reference to the Oracle of Delphi. The quotation is from 2012.

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