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Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptivelearning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. The Internet of Things (IoT) impacts virtually all of us.
From self-driving cars and grocery shopping without cash registers ( Amazon Go ), to algorithms that detect diseases and speech recognition that allows us to have conversations with robots (Apple’s Siri, for example) artificial intelligence is everywhere. Delivering adaptivelearning. Not even with ten. Final thoughts.
Thomas Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida You're talking about enhancing human conversations with software robots. Like using adaptivelearning, for example, to personalize the experience for students at scale. But we've got 68,000 students here.". How does that work?
(He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptivelearning.” What’s all the buzz about adaptivelearning really about? Learn more about its different definitions and applications in our special report on adaptivelearning. Not everyone bought into his vision at first.
” OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). “Short-Term Trends: (one to two years)” leads off with “Growing Focus on Measuring Learning.” Further along (4-5 years) are mixed reality and robotics.
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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.
” I’ll discuss some of the competing definitions of what “personalization” might mean, but in this case, it’s the emphasis on working “at your own pace” on school assignments. A student working on a science assignment, for example, may choose to create a project using video, text or audio files.
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