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When Bots Go to Class

ED Surge

In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learning analytics.” But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching.

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is a reprint from a series of posts I'm currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer. Although I have a Ph.D.