Group items tagged

Asking questions of the professors The course will offer a forum in which you can pose your questions directly to the instructors. You can also see the questions of other students in this class and vote on them. The instructors will answer the top-voted questions. So for your question to make it to the top of the list, you will have to ask a question that appeals to many other students. Discussions There will also be a general discussion forum, in which you can discuss questions and interact with other students. You are not allowed to post solutions to active homework assignment and exams here, but you are allowed to discuss the material covered in class; and you can of course pose questions. Once the answers to a homework assignment have been posted you are free to discuss them, as well as sharing any code you may have written. Video Lessons Video lectures are the primary method for communicating content in this class. They are posted weekly, and are composed of many small chunks of 1 to 15 minutes in length. Professors Thrun and Norvig will cover key concepts of AI in these lectures. Lectures will be posted weekly for each topic, and you can view lectures at your own pace once they have been posted until the end of the course. Quizzes There will be online quizzes as well, which enable you to demonstrate your knowledge of the AI topics you just learned about. If you get a question wrong, no problem. Quizzes don't count towards your score. But you may find that you will be asked to watch specific videos that discuss certain mistakes you may have made. Homework assignments These are just like quizzes, but now your submission counts towards the score. Homework assignments will be available all week, and you must complete all the questions during the week they are available; otherwise they count for 0. We plan for a total of 8 homework assignments, of which your two lowest scores will not be counted towards your score. The remaining 6 assignments taken together

"This is the final report, in a series of four reports, produced by the CEO Forum on Education and Technology during a five-year exploration of the impact of educational technology. The CEO Forum's mission for the five-year initiative was to provide reports to inform educational decision makers about effective uses of educational technology. The report concludes that effective uses of technology to enhance student achievement are based on four building blocks which are alignment, assessment, accountability, and access and analysis. Its definition of student achievement includes 21st Century skills. The report describes 21st Century skills as "a new set of skills necessary to prepare students for life and work in the digital age. These skills include digital literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication and high productivity abilities" (p. 32). The CEO Forum asserts that to obtain the maximum return on investments in technology, educational organizations need to focus their technology efforts on the four building blocks of student achievement."

This is the tool used to moderate questions during Obama's campaign. It is also used to some extent in the Stanford AI course. This tool allows the community to moderate the questions that it thinks are most important to answer. In the case of Stanford AI, the highest rated questions receive video responses by the faculty.