Hey, remember MOOCs? Remember "the year of the MOOC?" Remember how UVA's board tried to fire the president because she wasn't sufficiently hyped about MOOCs? Remember how Sebastian Thrun (Udacity) said there would eventually be only 10 higher-ed outlets bc of MOOCs? Just thought I'd ask.
"LLMs must become a core part of the educational experience.... This imperative grows with each new development in text, image, and voice generation — even the potential for AI-driven lessons delivered by simulated celebrities." Uurrgghh. (And what about environmental damage of this proposal?)
The essay assessment is only the most obvious casualty of generative AI. Janice Kay, Chris Husbands and Jason Tangen explain why AI should prompt a total overhaul of education strategies
I remember a UVA board member floating the idea of getting Matt Damon to reprise his role as math savant in Good Will Hunting to "teach" their calculus MOOCs. 1. MOOCs 2. ??? 3. Profit!
The MOOC thing may have come and gone but now it's rubes' fear of "woke ideology," state legislatures' maniacal obsession with budget cuts, and brunchlords petty grievances driving the move to get down to 10 higher-ed outlets, all of which will be under the purview of the NYT editorial board.
I don’t need MOOCs anymore, now that I can simply take classes in the Metaverse
Ugh. MIT started it all off if I recall.
Who is "Ben"
And boy do the OPM companies that have continued this stuff get really sensitive if you suggest they are con artists. Which reminds me, I should frame my two cease and desist letters from 2U
Of course, Sullivan would triumph and move on to greater triumph: trying to cover up UVA’s complicity in the race riots of 2017.
i don't understand how that trend went from "let's generously give away our course material for free" to "there is no need for in-class education ever again"
I think about this a lot.