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It’s hard to write about AI in e-learning without feeling as though you’re engaging in the sort of speculation usually left to science fiction authors, especially as we’re used to thinking of it as something potentially sinister or frightening. However, whether or not we’re aware of it, AI has become a regular part of our day-to-day lives.
Part of the disconnect, for many of us, is that the AI that exists simply doesn’t look like self-aware, human-passing androids that writers like Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, or Arthur C. Clarke led us to expect. Instead, what we have are sophisticated software programs that are very good at finding patterns, and then adjusting behavior to those patterns to deliver a fairly limited range of results.
That doesn’t sound as exciting (or as scary) as your typical sci-fi novel, but it does open the door to some very interesting use cases that are being applied today in the world of online education.
We’ve written before about how these technologies might be applied. Today, let’s look at a few companies who are already using them...
The growth of AI in online education is excellent news for everyone. The more educators can experiment with the technology, the more new and innovative ways they will find to put it to use. And as these use c
Not long ago, many technologies that underpin the Internet required specialized skills to use. We’re not far from a future where AI is just as common a component of course creation as video.
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Source: eLearning Learning
