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That Class Where Stanford Profs Projected Hundreds of Zoom Students on a Video Wall

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The course on Ethics, Public Policy and Technological Change, which has been running for a couple of years in-person, is intended to get students thinking about tough issues in the ethics of technology. At best, he says, “you get some sense of whether it’s going well or poorly.”

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. Murder mysteries and online learning. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

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The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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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. The professor also acknowledged the many ethical questions raised by such efforts. EdSurge: How would you define “learning engineering?”