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Tweet: Amazon ditched AI recruiting tool that favored men for technical jobs

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The company’s experimental hiring tool used artificial intelligence to give job candidates scores ranging from one to five stars.  Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in résumés submitted to the company over a 10-year period. Most came from men, a reflection of male dominance across the tech industry in the earlier years. In effect, Amazon’s system taught itself that male candidates were preferable.

 

#mscedc Amazon ditched AI recruiting tool that favored men for technical jobs https://t.co/mtx9LrmBQL

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@ThomasReinhard7 These are all excellent strategies and would work very well in class sizes of 30 or less. These methods offer a personalised experience and happier students. The amount of forum weaving for teachers might make it difficult for big classes #mscedc.

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@DavidYeats3 On a similar note our college is running a ‘graduate skills’ course, designed by multinationals, to make graduate new hires workplace ready- ‘teamwork’, ‘communication’ ‘time management”technical writing’. ‘critical thinking’. #mscedc

Who are the 5% of people who complete MOOCs?

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#mscedc https://t.co/ROwOLddB0C

Last week I commented on article about “low completion rates of Moocs”, and the findings that many of the 95% who don’t complete a MOOC are getting SOMETHING from the learning. But what of those 5% who DO commit to completing the MOOC? What kind of people are they, and aren’t they the kind of people that Universities would want to invest their resources on?