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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) million students.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC" — with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity. That robot grading is degrading.

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

Edsurge

And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did. Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. We can add videos, information, permission slips, resources, etc. By recording informational videos and posting to Google Classroom, some meetings can be replaced altogether. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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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. I wear many hats: teacher, robotics coach, IT specialist, IT support, school leadership, professional development, coaching, maintenance and repair, etc. You can still register for the MOOC-Ed and participate!

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Our digital future 10: Cognitive courseware

Learning with 'e's

Examples of cognitive technologies include computer vision , deep learning, natural language processing , speech recognition, and humanised robotics. This was indeed the case with Jill Watson, a chatbot teaching assistant introduced into a large MOOC by Professor Ashok Goel at Georgia Tech a few years ago (see the video below).

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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