Dive Summary:
- Udacity CEO and co-founder Sebastian Thrun said in an interview that eventually artificial intelligence will help students select MOOCs, watch over them in class and make them more effective learners.
- Thrun says not every aspect of MOOCs is ripe for artificial intelligence: He's happy to have human beings correcting student essays.
- Online courses have to adjust to the realities of a world in which things like Twitter bring shortened attention spans, Thrun says.
From the article:
... We have to really work on artificial intelligence, really understand, like, where can we take a student if they have a certain kind of learning profile? ...