2018 Summer eLC Crew Holidays’ Recommended Reading

2018 Summer eLC Crew Holidays’ Recommended Reading All itemsEducational trends

2018 Summer eLC Crew Holidays’ Recommended Reading

We have worked hard this year and we all deserve time for rest and for fun and also… to recharge our energies and keep on moving the wheel of educational advances! To be well informed[…]

AI (Artificial Intelligence) Expo Europe 2018 All itemsEducational trends

AI (Artificial Intelligence) Expo Europe 2018

On 27 and 28 June, Amsterdam hosted the AI Expo Europe 2018 conference (https://www.ai-expo.net/europe/). The conference included three simultaneous events: AI Expo, Blockchain Expo and IoT TechExpo, which could be regarded as today’s leading, most[…]

My teacher will be an AI (maybe) All itemsEducational trends

My teacher will be an AI (maybe)

An important distinction in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is between weak (or narrow) AI and strong (or general) AI, the later referring to artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The former consists of a[…]

Next Generation Student Success Symposium chronicle All itemsConversations about innovation

Next Generation Student Success Symposium chronicle

By Marta Bernabeu and Desirée Gómez From 19 to 21 June, the Next Generation Student Success meeting was held in Barcelona, jointly organized by DXtera Institute, Strada Education Network and German Alliance for Education (Bündnis für[…]

“Machines can see or perceive things that humans cannot, and they have an increasingly greater ability to understand and interpret” All itemsConversations about innovation

“Machines can see or perceive things that humans cannot, and they have an increasingly greater ability to understand and interpret”

One of the principal motivations behind research into affective computing is the idea of simulating empathy in a machine. Expert in the subject, Àgata Lapedriza spoke of the research being conducted in this field at[…]