Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. Second, I frequently have fewer than ten auto-graded questions to test for understanding of the assigned reading. But goals imposed by others—sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on—can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”

Motivation 196

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

“At the intersection of cognitive sciences and computing there’s an opportunity to transform educational technology,” says Satya Nitta, IBM’s program director of cognitive science and education technology. The bot, “Jill Watson,” passed the Turing test—students thought they were interacting with a human TA.

Instructors 157

Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance.

Lecturing 160

Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 160

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

At the time you were rolling it out slowly because there were many questions about using AI chatbots in education. What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? Sal Khan: When we launched back in March of 2023, I think the biggest worry was how we would be received by the education community.

Intelligence 199

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 199

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Together, we committed to an iterative process of examining existing and emerging MBE research and continually learning, testing, reflecting and revising our practices to make sure they’re reflective of the findings. The driving goal was to create a community of practitioners who identify as learning scientists. It started with coffee.

Education 217

Education Coaching Math English 217

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.

Teaching 137

Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

Exams 199

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

The chatbot has been in a test phase for the past six months, and Smith admits it doesn’t always give the right answer. So far the project is in the early stages, and is still a year away from testing. One recurring glitch is when the system misunderstands the question.

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Questions Languages Language 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“And then all the sudden we’re teaching online. If you’re in graduate school, you often work as a teaching assistant, you’re under a mentoring program, you’re taught to be a teacher. Online teaching is not necessarily the same.” But we are not given the same training that people who are taught face-to-face do.

Instructors 139

Instructors Teaching Assistants Study Assignments 139

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. Back in the days when tests were mimeographed (some of you also remember the smell of that purple ink!) and there were no adaptive engines to score them, I was the grader.

Education 184

Education Motivation Achievement Teaching Assistants 184

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

To test this out, the institution partnered with researchers from Brown University and edtech company Mainstay to select an online political science course that has high enrollment—and high rates of failure—because every student is required to take it. Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

However, there are certainly those who employ methods that put this perspective to the test. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more?

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Really what mattered where things that were graded, like quizzes and tests and assignments. How does that work?

Education 167

Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well.

Grades 92

Grades Exams Instructors Feedback 92

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. in chemical education from ASU, she accepted a new role as managing director of online programs at the university. And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab.

Science 181

Science Accessibility STEM Laboratory 181

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

Teaching 118

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But a rush to test—and possibly rely on—algorithms raises many questions, none bigger than this: Could the data lead colleges to rethink how they operate to serve students? Those were key points that emerged during an online panel discussion EdSurge hosted on the promises and perils of AI in education.

Learning 90

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 90

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

Textbooks 102

Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 102

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These factors converge to understandably discourage teachers with established routines from shifting away from lecturing and into flipped learning, a change that many scholars of pedagogy and education sciences strongly advocate for. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

He’s referring to the recently published results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which found that just 35 percent of U.S. fourth graders tested proficient in reading—down from 37 percent in 2017. As part of the partnership, the government is covering the cost of Lalilo licenses.

English 66

English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 66

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Then the tool asks a series of questions about the text (either questions input by the instructor or generated by the AI) to test the student’s grasp of key concepts. She typically teaches mechanical engineering courses with 100 to 150 students.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. They include Hanson Robotics, a company in Hong Kong that produces androids, and the Terasem Movement Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks to use “cyber consciousness” technology to extend the human lifespan. “Are you having a good day?” I am, yes, thank you.

Teachers 152

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. Tracking Math Identities Snyder, Holifield’s former teaching assistant, says she identifies as a non-math person. His students had watched the effects of his disease creep across his body.

Math 180

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 180

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. So what the virtual experimentation research assistant allows you to do— VERA —is to generate ideas and test them.

Mental Models 183

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 183

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Jackson’s high school students will have virtual spaces for student-led affinity clubs, and students will have opportunities to be teaching assistants, helping younger students with learning challenges and deepening their own relationships to favorite teachers or subjects. I’m going to try to hang on to my teachers,” Jackson says.

Distance Learning 191

Distance Learning Interdisciplinary Intelligence Schools 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. How do you leverage technology in your course? EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course?

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

Instead, they describe it as “live-to-device” or “live remote” education. At a company demonstration this week, students from around the globe gathered virtually to test the program’s tools. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios.

Instructors 132

Instructors Students Participation Distance Learning 132

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. she recalled.

Coaching 106

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