October 2 @CMU
I was in the talk from Alfred Z. Spector, Vice President of Research & Special Initiatives, Google. He talks about some of their key research initiatives, projects in Natural Language, Vision, User Experience, and Systems. I am quite interested in their efforts in education domain, as that's my primary research interest. He introduced their crowd education platform CourseBuilder, which from my believe, is an excellent product, even better than Coursera, which is overwhelmingly popular recently. It does not have better UI or functions compared to Coursera, but I appreciate the idea that the best way of learning it is to teach it. So everyone is encouraged to create a whole course of their particular expertise, which sounds more interesting to me, as in Coursera, only distinguished lecturers with the support from world class university could develop a course. In interesting question is that which one will succeed in the end, CourseBuilder or Coursera, collective intelligence or individual expert?
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