Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. It may sound obvious, but it addresses widespread concerns from many professors that online teaching will be impersonal and transactional. Are you saying online teaching wasn't humanized enough?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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