Listen to the story {Play} A new report has identified a number of emerging technologies and trends that have the potential to significantly impact education in the coming years. The report, which was published by the European Commission, highlights the importance of regulating technological innovation to allow diverse educational visions …
Listen to the story {Play} If you have figured out an effective way to manage your company’s big data, then make way for some serious innovation. But be warned, trying to big data effectively can be problematic. Often large and complex data sets are difficult (at the best of times) …
Listen to the story {Play} Artificial Intelligence often in movies represents the evil force in the story. In this spirit researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab have developed Shelley AI that writes its own scary stories and continues stories that already have been started. The Shelley …
To make artificial intelligence think more like humans it has to have the ability to make better sense of the world, which means becoming more imaginative. Sam Gershman from the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard says: “In contrast, humans can answer an infinite variety of queries about a scene.” …
European Time Machine is one of six proposals that received funding in a large-scale research initiative from the European Commission. The project focus on using historical big data to design and visualise the historical development of cities across Europe. Amsterdam is one of many cities that now are following in …
What can a museum do to develop design skills? As a matter of fact, it could be a dynamic creative space for such skills development. In this spirit, Victoria and Albert Museum in London launched a school project. With the mission to “promote design education for the future” that is called …
eLearningworld News A new solution based on blockchain technology allows open sharing of academic proficiency and progress records in a much more efficient way than before. The solution is developed by Sony Global Education and based on IBM Blockchain where the main benefits is that it allows school administrators to …
eLearningworld News How can robots be of best service for people at home? This question the Professors Matthias König and Sven Battermann with a multi-disciplinary team are researching. The focus of the research is directed on optimizing the communication and thus the interaction between service robots and the intelligent environment …
eLearningworld News from US The Stanford aWEAR’16 is the first international wearables in learning and education conference. It took place between November 14-15 and focused on topics like, bridging the gap between humans and technology, wearable technology in the classroom, collecting and processing data about learning and learning context from …
eLearningworld News from US Netflix knows what you watch, Amazon reviewing your reading behaviour and Spotify what is music to your ears, while publishers still has no access to such big data. Not until now, Jellybooks is a reader analytics company that has run tests on the reader behaviour of …
