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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Imagined futures 5: Robot teachers

Learning with 'e's

They get to know their charges well, finding creative ways to help them to learn optimally, engaging them with methods and activities designed to draw out the best performances. This doesn't mean that robots have no place in the classroom though. Responses from the robot teacher might be limited, perfunctory, or even non-existent.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. The promise of ed-tech — now as always: make teaching and learning cheaper, faster, more scalable, more efficient. He went from an F to an A+ without learning a thing."

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company). What does it need all that for?

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How will we learn languages in the future?

Mark Smithers

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. 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.

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Let your robots do the marking?

Learning with 'e's

Anant Agarwal, president of EdX, (Harvard and MIT''s non-profit making arm that runs MOOCs), says that the software will be a boon to learning online in the future, because it will allow students to rewrite and resubmit their essays time and again, to improve their grades. Photo by Steve Wheeler Let your robots do the marking?

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

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“We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So How do we create online tutors who are approachable and we want to learn from?’”

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