Entries tagged: Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence is here to stay
The Trends Observatory of the eLearn Center at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has entered into collaboration with observatories at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Observatorio de Innovación Educativa) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de[…]
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Three things we’ve learnt about chatbots in the classroom
This semester we’ve introduced a chatbot on two UOC courses. It’s a pilot project in response to an ambitious long-term goal: to provide students with assistance 24/7, all year round. There’s a long way to[…]
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The University of the Future. Artificial Intelligence in Education
A talk between Dr.Wayne Holmes and Guillem Garcia Brustenga 29/03/2019 Last March 29, 2019 at the UOC, during the meeting of the EADTU Artificial Intelligence Task Force, we took advantage of the presence of[…]
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Chronicle about GUNi 2018 Barcelona. A reflection about the future relations of Humanities and the Scientific and Technological disciplines
Chronicle about the International Conference on Humanities and Higher Education: Generating Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities Last 19th and 20th November 2018, I was attending the GUNi International Conference on Humanities and Higher Education[…]
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Briefing paper: chatbots in education
By Marc Fuertes-Alpiste and Núria Molas-Castells Chatbots or conversational assistants are programs that integrate artificial intelligence and are able to simulate or maintain a certain level of conversation with people through the use of natural[…]
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On the latest trends in educational technology
The eLearn Center participates in Dxtera and attends Educause 2018 in Denver By Núria Domènech and Francesc Santanach Introduction Last October, some members of the eLearn Center traveled to the United States to attend the[…]
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Personal and social robots in education
The role of robots in the education of the future Whether robots will replace the work done by humans on a large scale within the next 10 years is currently a subject of heated debate.[…]
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2018 Summer eLC Crew Holidays’ Recommended Reading
We have worked hard this year and we all deserve time for rest and for fun and also… to recharge our energies and keep on moving the wheel of educational advances! To be well informed[…]
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AI (Artificial Intelligence) Expo Europe 2018
On 27 and 28 June, Amsterdam hosted the AI Expo Europe 2018 conference (https://www.ai-expo.net/europe/). The conference included three simultaneous events: AI Expo, Blockchain Expo and IoT TechExpo, which could be regarded as today’s leading, most[…]
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My teacher will be an AI (maybe)
An important distinction in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is between weak (or narrow) AI and strong (or general) AI, the later referring to artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The former consists of a[…]