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Stephen Downes

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Honestly, this feels a bit sketchy to me. Here's the claim: "applying a free personality assessment in advance can help students better understand who they and their classmates are and how to work well within a group." The article briefly discusses Myers-Brigg (Jung) Typology Test, the DISC assessment, and the Compass Points Activity. I wouldn't take this difcussion very seriously, but the article raised for me the question of how an artificial intelligence would create student groups (aka adaptive group formation). Would it be based on a 'personality' assessment? Time zones? Diversity and inclusion principles? Something else? With large MOOC-sized classes being managed by algorithm, this question becomes more urgent.

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