Mukesh Ambani's Jio Institute will start its first academic session in 2021. It will focus on undergraduate courses in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and digital media and marketing. The digital courses will be led by Shailesh Kumar, who is the chief data scientist for Jio. The Human Resource & Development (HRD) Ministry had granted the'eminence' status to the Jio Institute even before it went operational. Mukesh Ambani's Jio Institute which will start its academic session in 2021 -- will offer courses in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, digital media and marketing.

In recent years, major research advances have taken place in the intersection of computer science and economics, but this material has so far been taught primarily at the graduate level. This paper describes a novel semester-long undergraduate-level course in the intersection of computer science and economics at Duke University, titled “CPS 173: Computational Microeconomics.”

The goal of the Pedagogical Discourse project is to develop instructional tools that will help students and instructors use discussion boards more effectively, with an emphasis on automatically assessing discussion activities and building tools for promoting student discussion participation and learning. In this paper, we present a two related participation and learning scaffolding tools that exploit natural language processing and information retrieval techniques. The PedaBot tool is designed to aid student knowledge acquisition and promote reflection about course topics by connecting related discussions from a knowledge base of past discussions to the current discussion thread. The MentorMatch tool aims at promoting student participation using student mentors, i.e., course peers with a relatively good understanding of a particular topic. The system identifies students who often provide answers on a given topic and encourages classmates to invite mentors to participate in related discussions. Both tools have been integrated into a live discussion board that is used by an undergraduate computer science course. This paper describes our approaches to applying information retrieval and natural language processing techniques in the development of the tools and presents initial results from instrumentation and survey.