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educationdive | March 27, 2020

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was one of the first major universities to make the call. In light of the coronavirus pandemic upheaving the end of the academic year, MIT officials told students they were doing away with letter grades this semester and switching to the university's version of a pass/fail grading system. TOver the next few days, a wave of institutions followed in temporarily expanding their pass/fail policies. They've included elite schools such as D...

TNW | February 28, 2020

Researchers have developed a new personalized learning robot for autistic children that uses machine learning to adapt its lessons to each kid’s changing needs. The University of Southern California team put a “socially assistive robot” called Kiwi in the homes of 17 autistic children and set the two-foot-tall, green-feathered robot to give each child personalized classes. Over the course of a month, the children played space-themed math games on a tablet device while Kiwi prov...

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TopCourt | August 28, 2021

Today TopCourt, a unique tennis digital learning platform, took the next step in the company's growth and unveiled an iOS and Android application. TopCourt offers tennis fans an e-learning platform with tools for learning the game from the world's best tennis players of the past, present and future, as well as the sport's most legendary coaches. Available across Apple and Android devices, the TopCourt app is personalized using machine learning algorithms for each fan&#...

Math Fix | June 10, 2020

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic requires some serious math literacy. There’s a daily dose of statistics on the number of new cases, and constant talk of “flattening the curve” of infections. But the education system has done a terrible job preparing us to live in a world where such number crunching is more important than ever, according to Conrad Wolfram, co-founder of Wolfram Research Europe. He has a new book out this week called “The Math Fix: An Education Bluepri...