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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit. The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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