This article has the magic word in it that always gets the attention of the media - "Harvard". The gist has been reported in other studies as well over the last few months: "Students were randomly assigned to learn a topic as usual in class, or stay 'home' in their dorm and learn it through an AI tutor powered by ChatGPT... Each student learned both ways, and for both lessons – one on surface tension and one on fluid flow – the AI-tutored students learned a lot more." The study? "Kestin provocatively titled his paper about the experiment, AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning, but in an interview he told me that he doesn't mean to suggest that AI should replace professors or traditional in-person classes."
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