Now, AI Makes Online Courses Even Smarter

The educational system is broken, and unfair. For decades, if not centuries, learning was limited by geography and having the means to continue with higher education. Online learning and massive open online courses (MOOCs) promised to address the inequities in education while extending its reach across all geographies. However, the online model simply paved over the older methods with technology, and perhaps even making things worse -- pushing course material to students, with no effective way to track how much they're learning, or even if they're paying attention. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) may have an answer for that, bringing learning and feedback in a very personal way to students.