Improving skills and competences of VET teachers and trainers in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Tony Bates has released a series of five 40-50 minute keynotes which an be downloaded without cost from the Commonwealth of Learning’s online institutional repository for learning resources and publications, OAsis, under a Creative Commons license. The subjects of the keynotes are: Developing quality blended learning courses Digital learning and the new economy New technologies […]
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The UK operates a central university admissions service, called UCAS. Today they have released their analysis of institutional and subject admissions for 2020. In an article in the online Higher Education newspaper, WONKHE, Sander Kristel, Chief Operations Officer at UCAS, points out some of the more striking features of the data. He reports that Artificial […]
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There is growing research and debate over how technology – particularly AI and automation – will result in changes to the world of work. LMIC (I think it stands for Labor Market Information Centre – but I couldn’t find anything about the name of their website) in Canada has a project to set up an […]
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The debate goes on. Here is the latest discussion organised by the OECD. On February 1 from 1600 to 1700 CET. Go here to register. What do we know about the impact of AI on the labour market? Will it further automate jobs and, if so, which ones? Will it improve job quality, or worsen […]
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I am copying this from Stephen Downes’ ever informative OLDaily newsletter digest. It features an article entitled What is machine learning? – A beginner’s guide posted on the FutureLearn website. This is quite a good introduction to machine learning. If you don’t know what it is and would like a quick no-nonsense introduction, this is […]
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