Tempering the Rise of the Machines

[saras]

10. The OP reeks of bias.

"enabled" "prevailing" "modern" "novel" "innovative" - propaganda without content. None of them imply, let alone guarantee, "better". New as an excuse to push corporate anti-education.

Online learning won't (and doesn't in the real world - my school charges exactly the same for it) reduce tuition, because it doesn't address the reasons for rising tuition.

The very TITLE of the report ASSUMES what it should be INVESTIGATING, which is whether online learning WORKS and SHOULD be introduced into America, not what the BARRIERS are. The barriers are perfectly reasonable cultural desires that shouldn't be overridden.

"report contained little advocacy one way or another; rather, the authors appeared to strive for a dispassionate analysis driven by a general sense that the rise of machine learning is inevitable"
That IS advocacy. "It's inevitable so there's no point in resisting it, even though it destroys everything you value."

"traditional institutions" "sophisticated, machine guided learning tools"
more namecalling and propaganda

"In 2009, a team of machine-learning researchers for Carnegie Mellon University’s Online Learning Initiative tested autonomous software that taught a statistics course twice as efficiently as a human lecturer."

Was it twice as efficient at getting students to understand how statistics are misused by the process of defining what to study, or was it just checking computational skill? To my mind, a class that is twice as efficient will produce twice as many students who are twice as likely to reject the application of statistics to human populations for the purposes of social control.