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Robots Won’t Replace Instructors, 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Instead, They’ll Help Them Be ‘More Human.’

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BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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My high hope: Why not show students how to create with VR and AR? I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. Office of Education Technology launched GoOpen last year, OERs have gotten a big boost. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

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The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. Timothy Powell, an ethnographer at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced a project to link digital humanities work and Native American communities.

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

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Often in online courses students disappear and drop,” says Barbara Illowsky, dean of basic skills and online educational resources (OER) and a professor of mathematics and statistics at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. I’m hoping this helps them to stay vested in the course as they’re working with their classmates.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Techcrunch : “ Parenting Hero helps parents figure out how to talk to their kids.” ” The New York Times promotes what it thinks are “ The Best Toys That Teach Kids How to Code.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.”

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). Solvable Challenges (“Those that we understand and know how to solve”) include “Authentic Learning Experiences” and “Improving Digital Literacy.” We can solve these.

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). Solvable Challenges (“Those that we understand and know how to solve”) include “Authentic Learning Experiences” and “Improving Digital Literacy.” We can solve these.

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