By Devon Haynie, US News
In many college programs, students have to wait days or weeks for their instructors to critique their written work. But it doesn’t have to be that way, experts say. Swap that human instructor with a computer, and students will have a grade within seconds. As massive open online courses, or MOOCs, continue to generate interest, more online students are being exposed to computer-assisted essay grading. EdX, the nonprofit MOOC provider founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, launched automated grading software last year and has made it available for free on the Internet. Georgia Tech, which is offering its own MOOCs for credit to students in its online master’s program in computer science, is planning on using similar technology as it expands its program.
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