Category: Conference
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Curriculum Mapping Pre-Conference Session – STLHE
While the session I wanted to go to this morning was canceled, but the session ( Curriculum Mapping: The Path to Improving Student Learning and Faculty Effectiveness Through Curriculum Alignment – John Mahaffy, Gloria Svare and Karen Kopera-Frye, University of Nevada, Reno) that I wanted to go to in the afternoon was really well done…
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Reinforcement Learning – Behaviouralism for the Machine?
I was at a day long seminar/conference on campus yesterday showcasing a variety of technology projects that are running on campus. One of the sessions that I went to that was somewhat interesting (if poorly presented) was on reinforcement learning (RL). Basically they have the machine/program hunt for a maximal reward signal and from there…
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Saturday keynote
Are students different because they have access to technology – researchers don’t know because there is no demographic data. Pew and a few others do – but Market Researchers have it all. (like the Google Book). Online learning is leveling the playing field. China is moving forward very quickly – trying for 1%, that means…