Universities like ‘deer in headlights’ on AI, says edX founder

Yet another ad masquerading as an opinion piece. Yesterday Meta today EdX. in the 19080s we used chalk board. then we were told this was baad because we weren't facing the students so we were encouraged to use OHP often through boards disappearing and the OHP being installed in all rooms. So our eyes got fried. Then we were told slides were too static and risked losing engagement so we were nudged into the insipid world of powerpoint. no course was safe unless represented in glorious all singing all dancing Technicolour with content that would make Disney blush. None of which improved students' understanding. Today the educational "technologists are hawking VR and AI as the future of education. I would give my full opinion unfortunately it would be unprintable. chat GPT in particular is a symptom of the lack of substance in education. Its vacuous content harvested fro a sea of dross is seen as insight in the same way witch doctors in [more] primitive cultures would offer concotions made from animals in the insitance that it would install characteristics of those animals in the recepient. No need for that anymore the educational technologist is here and via AI can channel the knowledge of world into your mind for no pain. Just don't try to understand the process. Else you'll realise that like the emperor vendors of these appliances are wearing no clothes.

Remind me again how the education companies doing MOOCS are doing?