The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. About 10 years ago, when big-name colleges were rushing to put out free online courses known as MOOCs, some proponents considered having Hollywood celebrities deliver them.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. Folks in the crypto space are questioning whether industries can be reimagined to operate in ways that are “less extractive, and more community-owned,” Allen says. That includes higher education.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Students who complete this introductory course will be eligible to enroll in the more advanced Self-Driving Car or Robotics nanodegree programs. Thrun claims that “that nearly 60 students [in the former program] have already found new jobs at companies like BMW, Lockheed Martin, NIO, Volvo and Amazon Robotics.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The robot learner would be delighted to have you say, ‘Okay, you made three errors in problem number one,’ and being a robot learner, they’d be able to take out those bugs and do better the next time.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! When we talk about the future, we often think of robots, and in the case of foreign language learning, this may well become a reality. Some methods will remain essential for developing language skills, such as MOOCs or tutoring.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population. We weren't very satisfied with what we saw in the early MOOCs. It felt to us a lot of the early MOOCs were just about delivering information and delivering instruction. Putting videos online for people to watch.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

MOOCs get social. Carolyn Rosé, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring ways to add social engagement to MOOCs since 2013. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. Watch the complete forum below: Or listen to the full discussion on our EdSurge Live podcast feed: You can also read the highlights from the partial transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 27, 2013

All of it from Biology to Robotics to Space exploration!" MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses. "A Film Professionals Network - Community of filmmakers from all parts of the world (203 members, 1/25/13) 4. Mathematics - A community of mathematicians, students, and mathematics enthusiasts (23,424, 1/25/13) 5. 30557, 1/27/13) 6.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? The result can be jarring.” For other topics, you can also check out our index of past #DLNchats.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. To begin, Justin recommends reading Frank Levy and Richard Murnane’s work, Dancing with Robots. Computers can increasingly solve routine tasks, so the question becomes, what are the kinds of things that computers and robots can’t do.

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RafranzDavis.com

MAY 22, 2016

I took courses online and I mean that I took everything from CS50 (an amazing MOOC taught by a Harvard Professor) to courses on web design, CSS and Python from Code Academy and General Assembly’s Dash platform. I also made wearables, an auto-tweeting bear and got involved with our high school’s First Robotics team.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. Mozilla wants everyone to become web literate, from getting the hang of HTML, to building robots, to learning about remix culture using paper and scissors.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. Mozilla wants everyone to become web literate, from getting the hang of HTML, to building robots, to learning about remix culture using paper and scissors.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom?

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.”

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Harvard’s 1,000 Kilobot swarm demonstrates the future of robotics 50 apps for the new school year Using Design Thinking to Create a School from Scratch Is This The School Library Of The Future? Mix Up Your Classroom Library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Her research focuses on emerging technologies such as drones, robotics, driverless vehicles, artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, and their use in libraries and education. In Fall 2014 she led a MOOC, The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends, that attracted over 1700 global participants.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Social credibility of alternative school models (Walden, Montessori, Homeschooling, etc.). Relative crudeness of most school and district IT performance (Wi-Fi, bandwidth, district filters, repairs, regulations, workflow, etc.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Thanks for sharing, Karen! Google+ community member, Ted Curran shared his most recent blog entry discussing the robo-grading technology announced by EdX. Thanks, Ted!

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Online learning is on the rise.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” The Internet was going to change everything. The Macintosh computer was going to change everything. And on and on and on. ”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Robotics and Virtual Reality: While the panel still agrees these technologies are two to three years from widespread adoption in K-12 learning spaces, experts predict more schools will be teaching with robots and asking students to design and build them as part of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” Robots are coming for our jobs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you have students or library users ages 9 - 17 that can answer the questions Do you have what it takes to put a robot on the Moon? Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners - Virtual Event. George Bartan reminds us that the 2014 MoonBots Challenge is under way. Can you answer ''Why We Should Go Back to the Moon for Good?''

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. He also happens to be the co-founder of Coursera itself, and it was his Stanford course on machine learning that helped launch the MOOC craze in the first place. million enrollments. (It

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