Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"SOLA, Saylor Academy's open-source AI learning assistant, is now publicly available on GitHub," reports Tom Caswell. "SOLA (Saylor Online Learning Assistant) is a Moodle plugin I've been building over the past 3 weeks. The goal is to give every student a personal study coach, not just another chatbot. It lives right inside the course experience and includes things like adaptive quizzes, voice practice, pronunciation coaching, personalized study plans, and conversation starters that instructors can customize." The thing to take home here is that he's been building it for three weeks. Not, say, three years.

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