Online Learning Update

March 11, 2021

How AI will rescue us from online learning’s ‘bad television’

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

David Shrier, Times Higher Ed

Most digital learning today is terrible, resembling “bad television”, as frequent collaborator professor Alex Pentland of MIT puts it. According to a 2019 study, only 3 per cent of students who start an online class finish it. All too often, an “online class” consists of sticking a tripod in the back of a lecture hall, recording a three-hour lecture and posting it online. This is a recipe almost guaranteed to produce failure.What if I could be in 2,000 breakout group discussions simultaneously, nudging students along a more productive path? asks David Shrier.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/how-ai-will-rescue-us-online-learnings-bad-television

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