Learning Ecosystems

From DSC:

When the technologies behind IBM’s Watson and Apple’s Siri get perfected and integrated into products and services that will make up the near future “Learning from the Living [Class] Room” environment— there will be:

• A high degree of personalization and customization — available 24x7x365 on multiple kinds of devices
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• The option to turn on tracking and analytics — reporting from which can be moved into the learner’s cloud-based profile upon completion of the unit/activity/badge
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• Students of all ages will have access to their own virtual tutors so to speak
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• When a virtual tutor is unable to resolve or address the student’s issue to the student’s satisfaction, the student will be able to instantly access a human tutor (with the option of keeping the existing work/issue/problems visible to the human tutor)
  

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Addendums:

• Siri’s new cousin works as a bank teller — from The Future of Work section at TechnologyReview.com — by Tom Simonite
  Spanish bank BBVA taps the team that invented the iPhone assistant to build technology that can converse with bank customers.
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• How Virtual Personal Assistants are changing consumers’ lives — from betakit.com by Gideon Hayden
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• A Siri for the Living Room — from businessweek.com by Kevin Fitchard