We often conceive of learning through the lens of cramming for an exam or teaching a dog to sit, but humans and other mammals aren't the only entities capable of adapting to their environment -- ...

Bias is machine learning’s original sin. It’s embedded in machine learning’s essence: the system learns from data, and thus is prone to picking up the human biases that the data represents. For ...

What do universities mean when they talk about “online education”? This is a question that Marc T. Austin, associate provost and dean of Augusta University Online, wanted to figure out. So, he did ...

Quality is a term that gets bandied about a lot in the national discourse about early learning programs, but there is little consensus on just what constitutes quality. Is it measured in test scores, ...

So, here’s the question: What does it mean to say someone has learned something when a machine can now do the same task? Artificial intelligence can generate essays, solve problems, and simulate ...

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At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. But a few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them ...

"Well begun is half done," Aristotle said. Preparing your classroom sessions is as important as running them. If you want to help students learn, you must first define learning outcomes, then design ...

Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Now, a new ...

It makes perfect sense why there is a push for personalized learning in our schools. It is a well-intentioned response to the standardized curriculum and instructional practices that date back to the ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a "critical period" ...

I’m reading this book on data mining by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank right now. Like a lot of the machine learning-oriented books I’ve been reading in preparation for the now-concluded Reconnect 2007 ...