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

Edsurge

“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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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – 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. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” “ Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek,” Quartz claims. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ”). .”

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children.” Private city.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Apple had a thing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Paul School Lunch Debt.”