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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. Major employers are embracing libraries of video and MOOC courses, tuition-assistance programs for online courses, and bootcamps focused on tech skills (which have themselves moved online).

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

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

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For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months.

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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. Many schools and districts will contract with outside consultants and instructional coaches to offer support and training for their teachers. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). New Teacher Training. What do you think?

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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

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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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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. That includes higher education. Not everyone is sold on this vision, though.

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