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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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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. So what happens?

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. He left the company in 2014.)

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) million students. million students.

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

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“Once we can find the characteristics of the most socially appealing instructor, then we can use that for any lecture or presentation or instructional interaction,” he adds, noting that he is watching the development of ChatGPT and other agents closely as companies try to add voices and images to them for applications like virtual tutors.

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How will we learn languages in the future?

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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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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.