Just last week, Udacity declared an intention to move away entirely from open access courses. Company Vice President Clarissa Shen said MOOCs “are dead.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/moocs-are-dead-whats-next-uh-oh…
Starting School and the Digital Divide in Classrooms
In many classrooms, teachers don’t start realizing internet home access challenges until October or November when online work for specific students is spotty or non-existent. It is easy to assume (like I did) that students were not just academically inclined …
Top 100 Teacher Youtube Channels for Teachers and Students
The Best Teacher Youtube Channels selected from thousands of Teacher channels on youtube and ranked based on youtube channel subscribers and popularity.
Google created a fun way to learn about simple AI
You’ve probably heard the term “machine learning” quite a bit — basically, it refers to training computers to learn without directly programming them. To help us wrap our minds around these ideas, Google created Teachable Machine, a web tool that …
What To Expect From The Next Generation Learning Platform
Becky Willis is the VP of Enterprise Engagement at EdCast. Based on Becky’s background and experiences, in this interview, she provides a good understanding of what the next generation learning platform looks like.
http://www.webcourseworks.com/next-generation-learning-platform/…
5 Ways to Use Video in The Classroom
Video in the classroom is powerful, because it has the ability to make the classroom come alive, and make meaningful learning experiences and connections. Video allows you to deliver long-lasting images, and reach children with various learning styles. But how …
Put Professors in the Driver’s Seat on Ed Tech
The next wave of educational technology innovation must get the faculty on board and make them central to institutions’ and companies’ strategies, Mike Silagadze argues.
A Big Publisher Embraces OER
Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses.
Presentation of the Week: What is Artificial Intelligence
Why jobs of the future won’t feel like work
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Top 10 Very Hot Artificial Intelligence – AI Tech Already Being Used Today
To enable us comprehend what’s hot and so forth, Forrester published a TechRadar report regarding Artificial Intelligence (for application development experts), a detailed breakdown of 13 techs companies ought to consider integrating to help human decision-making. In view of Forrester’s …
How to Recover a Deleted or Unsaved File in Microsoft Word
We’ve all been there: a frantic search for a document you know you saved but just can’t find. It’s been deleted, but you’re sure that you didn’t do it — at least on purpose. But fear not, Microsoft Word has …
University lecturers are topping up earnings by helping students cheat, review suggests
University lecturers are topping up their earnings by helping students cheat in their degree, a government-backed review will suggest.
How Big Can Storage Devices Get?
It’s not just HDDs that are getting larger, SSDs and magnetic tape is as well. Samsung announced up to 128 TB SSDs available by 2018 with its latest generation of V-NAND flash memory and LTO capacities of over 10 TB …
Our Teacher-Free Future?
So, apparently a team of Georgia Tech graduate teaching assistants working IBM’s Watson platform managed to produce a glorified interactive FAQ for their 300-person online “artificial intelligence” course and now we can look forward to a future without teachers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/our-teacher-free-future…