Technologies to Change Distance Education

Jill Watson

IBM Watson Powers Jill Watson at Georgia Tech - Esoteric Detective

Mike and Dan Chen (the double Chen Show) Discusses Jill and AI future

Readings (This is so new that peer reviewed articles are not available - but interesting news articles are)

• Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-robot-you-might-be-on-to-something-1462546621
• Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/11/this-professor-stunned-his-students-when-he-revealed-the-secret-identity-of-his-teaching-assistant/
• Tech Crunch https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/key-trends-in-machine-learning-and-ai/
• Quartz http://qz.com/688048/a-professor-built-an-ai-bot-to-make-teaching-easier-will-it-replace-him-someday/
• Tech Insider http://www.techinsider.io/watson-ai-became-a-teaching-assistant-2016-5

Blockchain Architecture

Illustration by Dan Page

Blockchain Basics in Two Minutes

The Value of Blockchain in Education - secure transcripting, credentialing, certification

Readings

• MIT Media Lab: What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/what-we-learned-from-designing-an-academic-certificates-system-on-the-blockchain-34ba5874f196#.t4x7h47vm
• Blockchain learning: can crypto-currency methods be appropriated to enhance online learning? http://oro.open.ac.uk/44966/9/Devine2015-altc-blockchainlearning.pdf
• Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing http://dmlcentral.net/peering-deep-into-future-of-educational-credentialing/
• MIT Media Lab Introduces Blockchain Technology for Credentials https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-06-07-mit-media-lab-introduces-blockchain-technology-for-credentials
• How MIT & Learning Machine Will Put Your Degree on the Blockchain https://news.bitcoin.com/mit-learning-machine-degree-blockchain/