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If you’ve ever attended an AI conference, I bet you passed under the placid gaze of a chrome-plated humanoid, lovingly selected from an ocean of creepy robot stock images that marketing teams can’t resist pasting on every billboard these days. Clearly, I’m personally guilty of using octarine-blue sci-fi art to lure weary travelers to my […]
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. announced that its accessibility solution Blackboard Ally—a tool that helps institutions make digital course content more accessible and integrates seamlessly into Learning Management System (LMS) solutions—is now fully integrated with all leading LMSs, including D2L’s Brightspace. This most recent integration underscores Blackboard’s commitment to ensuring all learners […]
At the start of the spring 2020 semester this January, Penn State World Campuswill have a new artificial intelligence tool for answering the most common requests from its undergraduate students. A virtual assistant will help academic advisers at the online institution screen student e-mails for certain keywords and phrases, and then automatically pull relevant information […]
From before our students even set foot on—or return to—our campuses, we are helping them learn “how to college.” In doing so, we are setting them on the path to graduation and to success far beyond our college or university. EDUCAUSE Review
Arizona State University is expanding its use of an online calculus application with built-in artificial intelligence. Currently, two courses — Calculus for Business and Calculus for Engineering — are using Gradarius from Castle Point Learning Systems, which personalizes the learning based on topics already understood and those still to be learned. The university expects to […]
One of the more intriguing new developments teased at the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking, being held here this week: Google is starting to provide cloud storage for K-12 districts, helping them warehouse the massive amounts of data they collect on their students, then offering artificial intelligence-as-a-service to help districts analyze the […]
spent millions of dollars developing tools to help instructors improve their teaching. Now other institutions are invited to use them, too. Inside Higher Ed
I usually see artificial intelligence explained in one of two ways: through the increasingly sensationalist perspective of the media or through dense scientific literature riddled with superfluous language and field-specific terms. There’s a less publicized area between these extremes where I think literature needs to step up a bit. News about “breakthroughs” like that stupid […]
In 2011, when a few Stanford (CA) professors experimented with delivering three of the university’s most popular computer science courses online for free, Dhawal Shah signed up for “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.” The idea of Stanford opening up its top-caliber education to people who lacked access appealed to Shah. And besides, he needed a boost […]
First intelligent reading assistant enables more accurate oral fluency assessment, provides voice-activated teacher support AUSTIN, TEXAS, SXSW EDU – March 4, 2019 – Learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and Amira Learning—creator of the first intelligent reading assistant that listens to, assesses and tutors learners—today announced an exclusive partnership serving U.S. schools designed to empower […]
