Educational Technology

December 19, 2012

New online learning tool brings ‘the crowd’ into homework assignments

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Abby Abazorius, MIT CSAIL

In an effort to bring a more human dimension to the online-education experience, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Rob Miller has developed a new computer system that will help provide students with feedback on their homework assignments and create more interaction between students, teachers and alumni. Called Caesar, the system was developed by Miller, a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and two of his graduate students, Mason Tang and Elena Tatarchenko, to address the challenge of how to facilitate instructor feedback to the hundreds of students taking his introductory computer science course each semester.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/new-online-learning-tool-brings-the-crowd-into-homework-assignments.html

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