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Case study: Superfast AI creation of online learning in manufacturing – fast, cheap, effective
We clearly have a productivity problem in manufacturing, in part due to a lack of training and skills. As manufacturing becomes more complex and automated, it needs lots of skills other than those traditionally repetitive jobs that are being replaced. Could AI help...
read moreCase study: Online healthcare learning – in minutes not months
Healthcare is a complex business. So many things to learn, so much new knowledge to constantly master. The sector is awash with documents from compliance to clinical guidelines, all with oodles of detail and never enough time to train, retain and recall. As it is...
read moreCase study: Global brand, £453,000 saved, 36% increase in sales “outstanding example of achieving our strategy to invest in and develop our people”.
I spoke to 600 teachers at the annual conference of a large educational institution last month and on the panel later the boss of said institution said “I don’t know why we teach knowledge, when you can look it all up on Google”. It depressed me, as he got applause...
read moreAI can build e-learning at a fraction of the cost, in minutes not months, with higher retention and recall
Paying 20k an hour for e-learning content, that takes months to make, that is laden with noisy pages of text/graphics, punctuated by low retention multiple-choice questions? AI can help you to build content at a fraction of the cost, in minutes not months, with higher...
read moreHas the old ‘graphics-text-graphics-text-MCQs had its day? Evidence that effortful, open-response learning is better
To what degree does contemporary online learning reflect contemporary learning theory? The old paradigm of graphic-text-MCQ is way out of line with recent (and past) learning theory, so that, no matter how much glitz, animation and graphics you produce, the...
read moreBot teacher that impressed and fooled everyone
An ever-present problem in teaching, especially online, is the very many queries and questions from students. In the Georgia Tech online course this was up to 10,000 per semester from a class of 350 students (300 online, 50 on campus). It’s hard to get your head round...
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