Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2023
It turns out, one of the world’s most-cited educational researchers, Richard Mayer , is working on a series of studies looking at what kind of computer-generated voices and images are most engaging to learners and lead to the best outcomes. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies." That robot grading is degrading. Who has a teacher or peer read their paper, and who gets a robot?) But a few people said that robot grading was fine, particularly for math and that soon enough it would work in the humanities too.
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The Shake Up Learning Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Book Study/Lit Circles. Certification Study Groups.
Learning with 'e's
APRIL 6, 2013
Anant Agarwal, president of EdX, (Harvard and MIT''s non-profit making arm that runs MOOCs), says that the software will be a boon to learning online in the future, because it will allow students to rewrite and resubmit their essays time and again, to improve their grades. Photo by Steve Wheeler Let your robots do the marking?
Edsurge
JANUARY 24, 2022
If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.
Hack Education
JULY 7, 2017
” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”
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