Online Learning Update

December 29, 2017

Machine Learning and Higher Education

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

by Heath Yates and Craig Chamberlain, EDUCAUSE Review
Software is eating the world, so said Marc Andreesen in 2011.1 These days it seems that machine learning and its specialized algorithms are eating the software world.2 Is it thus a foregone conclusion that machine learning will play a significant role in disrupting technology and shaping our future? Machine learning concerns teaching machines to learn about something without explicit programming. At the core of machine learning is the idea of modeling and extracting useful information out of data. Societal trends clearly point to data as the resource of the future. Colleges and universities are already swimming in data, and there is much more on the way. Imagine a future in which computers are everywhere and interconnected with everything from clothes to refrigerators, phones, vending machines, and more.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/12/machine-learning-and-higher-education

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