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KAVITA BALA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University has been named the university’s 17th provost. An expert in computer vision and graphics, Bala will succeed John Siliciano, professor of law in Cornell Law School, who has served as interim provost since July 1.

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Technology Enhanced Learning is now at scale

Teaching Matters Online Learning

I first visited Stanford and MIT in 1973 when I was writing computer programs to teach school students algebra. Since then the use of statistics has become much more sophisticated and learners have been offered an increasing variety of ways of using computers to take greater control of their own learning.

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Generative AI and the Near Future of Work: An EdTech Example

eLiterate

The earliest version on the 1EdTech website dates back to 2002, while the most recent version was released in 2022. Think of transformers as computing legos. One major reason that ChatGPT is so impressive is that it uses a lot of computing legos. You can guess from the name what it’s supposed to do. But probably not.