Presentation notes for Innovation in Course Design Conference on AI in Education; 27 June 2018

1. Innovation in Course Design
27 June 2018
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2. Presentation Outline
1. Examples of Artificial Intelligence
2. Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
3. Artificial Intelligence in Education
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3. 1. Examples of Arti cial Intelligence
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4. Arti cial Intelligence
Sci-Fi Robots Social Media
Smart Assistants Self-driving cars Media Service Providers
Home Automation AI programs and systems E-commerce platforms
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5. 2. Brief History of Arti cial Intelligence
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6. IBM 700 Series (1950s)
Arthur Samuel developed a system that taught itself to play checkers
better than him
The system analyzed data from thousands of games and learned the
winning moves - machine learning
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7. IBM Deep Blue (1996)
Proccessing power advanced far enough to beat a game of chess
First AI to beat a human chess player
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8. IBM Watson (2011)
Understands natural language
First AI to win Jeopardy
Answers questions (it does automated reasoning and machine learning to
come up with the best answer)
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9. Google DeepMind - Atari 2600 Games (2013)
Self-taught AI - can learn like a human; no knowledge programmed into
it, other than rules of the game
Teaches itself with a human method of "trial and error" (in contrast to
machine learning)
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10. Google AlphaGo (2016)
Same technique adapted to one of the most complex board games - GO has
a large branching factor
First AI to beat a human Go player on a full-sized 19×19 board
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11. Google Duplex
An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone
Google Duplex Demo from Google IO 2018
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12. 3. Arti cial Intelligence in Education
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13. Arti cial Intelligence in Education - What?
Answer routine questions (natural language processing)
Provide teaching at a pace
interact with students and predict their pace of learning
individualized teaching & learning
Learning with/from the students
According to EdTech Magazine, research predicts use of AI in the
education sector to grow 47.5% by 2021
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14. IBM Watson Education
Watson API
Series of partnerships
Introducing Watson Education video
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15. Sesame Workshop/IBM partnership (2017)
An app to aid in building vocabulary in early childhood
Vocabulary tutor app - adaptive and individualized intelligent play and
learning platform
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16. Pearson/IBM partnership (2016)
AI Tutor available inside online textbooks
provides personalized one-on-one tutoring to students on the reading
material by demand; checks for comprehension at the end of each section
teachers gain insight on students' progress
IBM and Pearson video
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17. Jill Watson (2016)
Virtual Teaching Assistant built with IBM Bluemix platform & IBM Watson
at Georgia Tech for 2016 MOOC Udacity course
It answers routine questions (queries about file formats, office hours,
assignment details) - 97 percent accurate
A teaching assistant named Jill Watson TEDxSanFrancisco
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18. Blackboard/IBM partnership (2016)
The processing power of IBM & Watson technology + Blackboard
Intelligent and customized educational platforms
Blackboard + IBM Higher Ed Partnership Reveal
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19. Global Learning XPRIZE (2014 - 2019)
funded by Elon Musk
A $15M global competition to develop open source software that will
enable children to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic
As of December 2017 5 finalists have started Field Tests
The Global Learning XPRIZE video
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20. Instructure/Zoomi Partnership (2017)
Zoomi - a performance optimization data analytics company
Predict learning outcomes, adapt pathways (personalized learning)
Nugde project by Canvas (nudging students to complete assignments)
The Canvas of the Future video
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21. Questions
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22. Source / Additional Resources
This is AI documentary
How can AI help improve learning?
IBM Research - Watson Intelligent Tutor
Meet Pepper: The World's First Humanoid Robot That Reads Human
Emotions
Zoomi and Instructure Partner
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