Monthly Archives: November 2018
LTI Series – AI & the OU: the opportunity, the reality & the risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be never out of the news – with Google’s Deep Mind diagnosing diabetic eye disease better than ophthalmologists, self-driving vehicles avoiding or causing accidents, and automation threatening to take over everyone’s jobs.Artificial Intelligence has also quietly entered the Open University.
openAIED Interest Group Agenda – 13 November 2018
OpenTEL is pleased to announce that Dr Korina Giaxoglou, OU Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language, and Dr Duygu Bektik, IET Lecturer in Academic Professional Development, will be presenting at the next openAIED Interest Group.
Postgrad quals on FutureLearn Q&A session
Following the announcement in August that some OU postgraduate qualifications will be offered on FutureLearn in a test and learn project, a Q&A session will be held to give colleagues and students an opportunity to hear from members of the project team.
Taking stock: have we failed to define and measure learning gains?
In the last three years substantial efforts have been made by a vast number of researchers, teachers, and higher education institutions in the UK to define, conceptualise, and measure learning gains.