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Online Learning Research: The AI Tutor Trial That Lowered Grades
The largest university trial of a course-integrated AI tutor so far found lower grades and much less activity in the course site. The tutor's default setting, and what it pushed aside, look like the lesson.
AI Course Creation Comes to Course Platforms: Check the Quizzes
LearnWorlds and Thinkific now draft courses and quiz questions for you. The research says AI-written questions can pass for human ones, but they lean easy and factual, so the review is where the learning is won or lost.
Microcredentials in Higher Education: What Changed This Term
This term, the people who fund and recognise microcredentials started asking what they prove, not how many exist. That shifts the work from issuing certificates to designing assessments worth trusting.
AI in eLearning: What Changed This Term, and What It Means for Courses
Your learners now have an AI tutor whether your course offers one or not. The trials suggest that's a problem only if the AI does the thinking for them, and course design can decide which way it goes.