A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016)

Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by platz on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:18PM (#18295503)

Remember this was the height of MOOC madness.

Then we learned students never completed moocs and instructors hated creating content and getting paid almost nothing (compared to their full time jobs) to be a sharecropper on their platform, without tenure, status, or all the other perks teachers enjoy (because they don't get paid much). Contrary to techies opinions, teachers do not want to give up their hard won political power ( that's all they have left ) for the sake of tech.

They saw what tech did to the publishing industry

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Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by tomjen3 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:28PM (#18296582)

I can't help but think that both of those issues are eminently solvable. In the case of teachers, focus on making a product for the teachers, then charge them either a flat fee or a percentage, ala kickstarter or patreon.

As for the nobody finishes, that is even easier: use Beeminder[0], and if you are writting a mooc platform, integrate with it.

[0]: beeminder.com; self-control as a service; I am a very happy user, but, except for a few stickers, an unpaid shill.

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Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by platz on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:50PM (#18296752)

If only we could prevent college dropouts with beeminder :)

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