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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

Based on each student’s actions, when a student gets stuck, the system automatically suggests strategies on how to get out of it and proceed to mastery. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

Edsurge

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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MOOC-Ed: Coaching Digital Learning, Unit 1 Reflection

EdTechnocation.com

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. What are the most Effective Coaching Strategies and the what are the Biggest Challenges ? What strategies have you found effective in your coaching? You can still register for the MOOC-Ed and participate! Here are my responses.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. Watch the complete forum below: Or listen to the full discussion on our EdSurge Live podcast feed: You can also read the highlights from the partial transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” Some of the questions I’ve wanted answered: how do VCs “know things” about ed-tech?

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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.). Bragaw encourages us to rethink campus strategy in light of being a nonprofit business.