EdX, the consortium of universities, including Georgetown, that offers Massive Open Online Courses for free, introduced experimental software last week that uses artificial intelligence to grade and ...

“Online grading is atrociously bad,” Livengood said. “I found there is something about having to grade in an online environment that is intellectually harder to do. I’m spending three or four times as ...

April 30 marks the deadline for a contest challenging software developers to create an automated scorer of student essays, otherwise known as a roboreader, that performs as good as a human expert ...