Towards an intelligent question & feedback learning service:
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If, in future we (governments) are going to spend less on education & charge higher education students more, this might be a good reason to exploit computing (machine learning), by developing services such as above that give suggestions & more intelligent feedback. If Amazon.com can suggest other books we might like to read, surely we should start developing systems that feedback useful suggestions & hints to students & their teachers. IBM have developed Watson that can win a TV knowlege quiz show, by responding in real time to (natuaral language) spoken questions. IBM & other companies are looking to exploit this avenue of computing, but not it seems to support the learning of young people & our future human resource…
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