How Machine-based Tutoring Could Disrupt Human Tutors

Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of??Kaplan, published an??eye-popping blog about a??meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about nearly 100 well-constructed papers about computers used to tutor learners. A couple of headlines from the meta-analysis are worth spotlighting here. First, the work shines some questions on Benjamin Bloom's analysis from a ...

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