To its 5,000 salesmen across the U.S., Grolier Inc., publisher of America’s oldest encyclopedia, last week handed out an odd-looking new product to sell door to door. A green, windowed, sheet-metal ...

We shouldn’t ask how much knowledge an agent can retain, but rather if it has had the opportunity to develop expertise by practicing as humans do.

From the 1920s American psychologists experimented with teaching using machines. Inspired, in part, by the expansion of schooling, especially at the secondary level; the success of paper-and-pencil ...

One of Audrey Watters’s observations in her deeply researched Teaching Machines is that ed-tech evangelists seldom make an effort to learn the history of educational technologies. For those ...

If textbook publishers and ed-tech startups have their way, American classrooms may soon become very different learning environments. A new wave of software that draws on 21 st-century technologies ...

Microsoft is rallying behind a new buzzword as it tries to sell businesses on artificial intelligence. It’s called “machine teaching,” and it’s loosely defined by Microsoft as a set of tools that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the years following World War II, ...

Is the “teaching machine” an ugly ogre? Does it promise new blessing or new burden for the Church’s task in the world? Whichever your answer, the arrival of the teaching machine for auto-instruction ...

Are you tired of telling machines what to do and what not to do? It’s a large part of regular people’s days – operating dishwashers, smartphones and cars. It’s an even bigger part of life for ...