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MOOCs and other ed-tech bubbles | Ed Tech Now - 4 views

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  • The fact that interactivity (so essential to the process of learning) is claimed as a rare bonus reveals the dreary truth, that the vast majority of resources are expositive.
Rebecca Davis

Report: Barriers to the rise of artificially intelligent tutors at traditional universi... - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Davis on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • a new report written by the former presidents of two prominent traditional universities on behalf of the nonprofit Ithaka S+R.
  • However, these innovative colleges have shown less interest in using the novel medium to curb tuition charges and measure learning outcomes.  
  • "Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education," was co-written by Lawrence S. Bacow and William G. Bowen, the former presidents of Tufts and Princeton Universities, respectively, along with several Ithaka analysts. It was bankrolled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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  • objective was to assess the potential roadblocks that might prevent these traditional institutions from adopting sophisticated, “machine guided” learning tools into their curriculums
  • The most frequently cited motivation for adopting online programs was “the desire to generate new revenue streams,” they write.
  • “Very few are using either savings from online education or the net incremental revenue to reduce the price of education to students,”
    • Rebecca Davis
      Rebecca Davis on 01 May 12
       
      there is slippage in discussion between machine-guided learning and online learning--they are not the same thing
  • Neither has a belief in superior pedagogical opportunities played much of a role in the decision of traditional institutions to push their curriculums on to the Web.
  • potential obstacles to the widespread adoption of such systems -- most revolving around faculty skepticism
  • perennial fear that instructors could lose their jobs to interloping automatons.
  • intellectual property issues might be the thorniest obstacle
  • professors might not be keen to use automated tutorials that they cannot add to and remix based on their own styles and tastes.
  • Rebecca Davis on 01 May 12
     
    article on new report from Ithaka S+R that extrapolates barriers to machine-guided learning based on barriers to online learning
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