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I'm unclear what you're asking for? The computer-supported peer-instruction phone app example is based on work by Eric Mazur at Harvard (physics; physics educa
by mncharity 8y ago
I'm unclear what you're asking for? The computer-supported peer-instruction phone app example is based on work by Eric Mazur at Harvard (physics; physics education research; peer instruction). The AI example is simply a generic computer-human process hybrid, taking the existing teacher/tutor task of productively managing student grouping and learning, and scaling it with computer-based monitoring and optimization.
Prior art? If your interest is in patents, my fuzzy understanding is Mazur regrettably took a familiar path. Unable to get follow-on research funding on the topic, he created a startup, with Harvard patent(s) (on what exactly I must of course avoid knowing) for table stakes and moat. The startup of course failed, and was acquired by a large dysfunctional education incumbent for the anticompetitive "value" of the patents. Leaving society arguably much worse off than if the original physics education research had never been funded at all.
It's my fear that the conjunction of education with computer-human hybrid processes, and with with AR/VR, given the regulatory capture of patent policy, and plummeting ordinary skill levels, is creating a toxic stew of patents that will profoundly impede innovation in education in the US for many years.
- sitkack 8y agoThe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act strikes again! Thank you.