ECNU Review of Education study explores how large language models can revolutionize teaching as personalized assistants
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A study from East China Normal University explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can revolutionize education by automating teaching tasks. It highlights two key applications: generating customized materials and streamlining assessment. While LLMs reduce educators’ workload, human oversight remains crucial. The research suggests a collaborative model where teachers act as orchestrators and LLMs serve as assistants, ensuring AI integration enhances personalized education while maintaining instructional quality and adaptability.
A “weekend warrior” approach to physical activity — getting 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity over one to two days instead of throughout the week — improved health and lowered the risk of death, finds a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Social-emotional ability serves as a critical human foundation for sustainable societal development. While researchers have focused on enhancing primary and secondary school students' social-emotional skills, the development of university students' social-emotional ability has been overlooked. This study examines the current state of college students' social-emotional abilities. It identifies that these skills are significantly influenced by various factors, including education level, gender, university type, geographic origin, family background, and teacher–student relationships, which are found to significantly affect college students' social-emotional ability.
World-first research from the University of South Australia shows that autistic students are still struggling at school, despite efforts to improve services and supports.
MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.
A new poll has revealed what the public think are the most important discoveries and inventions of all time – and what will be the biggest scientific breakthrough in the next 100 years.
The survey of 2,000 UK adults was carried out between 19-24 March by OnePoll, on behalf of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in England, and coincides with the launch of ARU's Connecting Worlds research hub.