EdX Creates An Automated Open Online Learning Essay Grading System - Doresa Banning, City Town

EdX, which provides a platform for massive open online courses (or MOOCs), recently waded into the fray surrounding automated grading systems by introducing software that employs artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers and provide an immediate assessment, The New York Times reported. The nonprofit organization, founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is making the tool available for free via the Internet to colleges and other institutions to use. Perhaps not surprisingly, the technology, while not altogether new, has already garnered controversy. http://www.citytowninfo.com/career-and-education-news/articles/edx-creates-an-automated-essay-grading-system-available-to-the-public-13040502