Artificial intelligence will track whether you're paying attention in class

If you find yourself daydreaming during class, Nestor could help you regain your focus and help professors improve the least-engaging parts of their lecture. You may have gotten away with staring off into space during your college years, but alas, the students of tomorrow may not be so lucky. In fact, some business students of today will soon find that their attention spans (or lack thereof) are being closely monitored. It's all thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and facial analysis, which researchers are using to detect whether or not students are actually paying attention in lectures. This combination forms a new kind of software called Nestor, and at its September launch, will be used in two online courses at the ESG business school. It's the brainchild of LCA Learning, and it may just change the way we take classes.