“Recorded music meant that there were aspects — not all aspects of music — but aspects like the lecture where the very, very best gets used thousands and thousands of times instead of just getting used once,” Gates said. “We’re definitely coming to that type of change.”
Concerts did not simply disappear because people could now listen to songs at their own leisure, he argued. Recorded music and live performances found a way to complement and enhance each other.
Also helping faculty enhance learning experiences in 2023 will be the massive amounts of data and data management tools at their fingertips.
“Learning algorithms currently identify who is at risk,” said Dave Kil, the chief data scientist at Civitas Learning. “In the near future, the same algorithms must learn how to engage and nudge students to help them succeed. Furthermore, they need to learn utilities of these interventions in real time.”
Software and artificially intelligent adaptive learning will take tasks like grading, giving simple quizzes, and tracking a student’s progress out of the faculty’s hands.
But if pre-recorded lectures are the doing the lecturing, learning analytics are doing the analyzing, and grading software is doing the grading – what duties are left for the instructor?
There’s plenty left to do, Kil said, adding that handing over the more administrative aspects of the job will allow faculty to focus on a more “human” side of teaching.
He offered this scenario: if a good student suddenly begins to do poorly in a class, a professor has to hope she notices the decline quickly enough to intervene.
The professor, in the more data-driven year of 2023, would instead be alerted of the decline, and software would analyze the pattern of poor performance.
What behaviors did the student exhibit when she was doing well? What behaviors did she exhibit when she was doing poorly?
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