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Future of college will involve fewer professors

  • Written by Patricia A. Young, Professor of Literacy, Culture and Instructional Design & Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageSome colleges and universities may be using AI technology to help teach their students. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images

At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage.

Meanwhile, at a Southern university, graduate students in an artificial intelligence course discover that one of...

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