On-line courses are attracting more and more people, both students and professionals (I should say I took a few myself and -at least the ones I followed- they are very good. There are courses on any kind of subject. Tutoring is -relatively- more recent (15 years…). The development of tutoring …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – XIV
Tele-learning gets serious What is now being called the “Zoom Education” turned years of discussion into reality in a matter of weeks, sometime days. According to the Singularity University, 1.38 billion students shifted from the classroom to the cyberspace as the daily way of “going” to school. In Italy …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios VI
Next generation education As just mentioned the “education” of citizens, through increased awareness of the present situation the goals the impact of actions that are/can be taken by the individual, is a fundamental aspect of improving a smart city. However, the need for increasing awareness is a much more general need …
Read More »Applying Cognitive Digital Twins to Professional Education – IX
The first three goals are clearly directed to improve “my knowledge”, the first one being more generally applicable to any learning, including school learning, while the second and the third more specifically tailored to the need of a professional (the second is clearly oriented to provide knowledge “pills” functional to …
Read More »Distributed Intelligence, distributed Knowledge – II
Following on yesterday post it is clear that the explosion of knowledge has created challenges to both individuals and companies. A single individual is seen is hard won competence losing value as time goes by, at an ever faster pace. Keeping on learning to make up for the lost knowledge …
Read More »Machine/Human Integrated Learning Technologies I
The amount of data, information and knowledge in today’s world is enormous, and keeps growing at an amazing pace. In the past, this was shared between books and people, today it is shared also with machine and internet with the latter having the lion share and with the machine steadily …
Read More »Can VR boost learning?
Immersive reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality are all new ways of stimulating our senses and hence our brain. Although intuitively one can assume that the more stimuli we provide to our brain, the more it will learn, when one start to reflect on this doubts creep in. …
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