The Canvas Chatbot: How Northwestern University Built Its Own AI-Enabled Tool
Educause
APRIL 29, 2024
Northwestern University Information Technology built an AI-enabled chatbot to answer questions about the university’s LMS on a 24/7 basis.
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Educause
APRIL 29, 2024
Northwestern University Information Technology built an AI-enabled chatbot to answer questions about the university’s LMS on a 24/7 basis.
University Business
AUGUST 18, 2023
As AI advances and technologies like generative AI are transforming the education sector through platforms like Khanmigo , we have observed a significant uptick in demand from learning organizations. In reality, building a custom version of Khanmigo is more than meets the eye, even with the most powerful generative AI technologies like GPT-4.
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Creatrix Campus
APRIL 19, 2023
11 ways University Chatbots are transforming learning and teaching in higher education editor Wed, 04/19/2023 - 04:51 Chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate conversation with human users, typically over the internet. However, chatbots have also found their way into the higher education sector.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The Role of Chatbots for Universities and Colleges. Many of today’s students have grown up with technology literally at their fingertips. Enter one of the latest trends in communication technology: the chatbot. What Is a Chatbot? How Do Chatbots Work?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” We had some of our colleagues provide advice on using educational technology. Technological advances In the five years that Gibson-Gayle has been at St.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2023
What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT. Continue reading.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
MAY 4, 2023
Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.
Campus Technology
JANUARY 29, 2024
Department of Education (ED)'s Postsecondary Student Success Program to study how chatbots affect student outcomes at GSU, its associate institution Perimeter College, and its partner schools, Morgan State University in Maryland, and the University of Central Florida. million grant from the U.S.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of sophisticated conversational systems known as chatbots. Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students.
Austin Williams
MAY 28, 2019
Thanks to our daily usage of the internet, it’s nearly impossible to have never encountered a chatbot. percent by 2022 , chatbots have become integral to the way the general public prefers to communicate—efficiently, anonymously, and on their time. But the times they are a changin’. With an anticipated global growth of 24.43
University Business
APRIL 17, 2024
Other faculty members are scrambling to AI-proof their classrooms to prevent students from using this technology to cheat. AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. This ambivalence is understandable.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 13, 2024
Cecilia Marshall From 24/7 chatbots to personalized tutoring, AI can provide resources for students and educators. Chatbots, though not necessarily cheaper, free up time that staff can spend face-to-face with students instead of answering calls or emails, Marshall said. They want to be the producers of technology.”
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of sophisticated conversational systems known as chatbots. Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
This is a generation that live hand-in-hand with technology as co-creators. This need for instant, personalised information is being met across society by AI powered chatbot technology. Technology promises increased personalisation but what can be more personal than a human?
EAB
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Unlike traditional chatbots that must be trained to recognize and respond to specific queries, Navigate’s knowledge bot learns on its own to interpret variations on student questions and deliver more accurate answers and links to relevant resources. Learn more at eab.com.
Higher Ed Ethics Watch
JUNE 8, 2023
Stakeholder Responses ChatGPT, a chatbot software launched by the AI company OpenAI in November 2022, synthesizes online data and communicates it in a conversational way. The chatbot generates articulate and nuanced text in response to short prompts, with people using it in a variety of ways including their schoolwork.
ACPA
JUNE 9, 2023
How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. We will also talk about what we can do to stand out as student affairs professionals in the age of technology. #22-How
University Business
JANUARY 20, 2023
ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, has educators and even some students worried about its capacity to promote cheating on assignments. However, AI technology shouldn’t be something we fear, but rather a tool that teachers and education leaders can lean in on for the benefit of our students. Now let’s have some fun, shall we?
HEPI
AUGUST 22, 2023
The key to doing so lies in technology, for two reasons. Secondly, technology exposes students to new and interesting problems in a way that encourages greater curiosity and risk-taking. The technology ensured that every student benefits from an immersive learning experience.
Higher Ed Ethics Watch
JUNE 22, 2023
Survey results reported by Resume Builder on February 27, 2023, “1 in 4 companies have already replaced workers with ChatGPT,” show the widespread use of the chatbot in business. Some professors are phasing out take-home, open-book assignments — which became a dominant method of assessment in the pandemic but now seem vulnerable to chatbots.
University Business
JANUARY 24, 2023
ChatGPT, the highly controversial chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, will soon be incorporated into some of the most popular applications used in both K12 and higher education among students, according to recent reports. For others, the chatbot serves as an opportunity to increase student engagement. “In
WCET Frontiers
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Technology Platform To advance this work, the Commission has partnered with Mainstay, a company that has built a two-way student success platform geared toward improving financial aid application completions. The California platform, which we have named “Cali,” is a new, innovative AI text-messaging chatbot.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
JULY 5, 2023
From chatbots to language processing and image editing tools, using AI marketing tools can contribute to institutions’ efforts to gain a competitive edge. This AI chatbot was launched in November 2022, and it has been on the news ever since. AI in education marketing can also help schools improve their student experience.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 11, 2024
The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3
University Business
MARCH 12, 2024
Education and how professors, administrators and their institutions can deliver content are bristling with innovation thanks to cutting-edge technology. Unfortunately for higher education, college administrators still seem ill-prepared for the disruption such technologies are bound to generate.
University Business
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
OpenAI, the chatbot’s creator, launched its own AI-writing detector several weeks ago, yet it’s not 100% accurate, according to the company. “Equally important as our confidence in the technology is making the information usable and helpful and in a format that educators can use.”
The Guardian - Higher Education
JANUARY 13, 2023
ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do?
Faculty Focus
MAY 2, 2023
“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?
Faculty Focus
MAY 9, 2024
In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. Do AI chatbots improve students learning outcomes? & Yu, Z.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A little less than half of the students surveyed responded that they had used AI tools (46%), the majority having used chatbot ChatGPT (83%). 40% of students responded that they used “Other AI tools,” 17% said AI image generation tool Dall-E 2, and 19% said they used chatbots Bing Chat and Google Bard.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
surrounding the technology is all about. For most people, ChatGPT was their introduction to large language model (LLM) AI, a technological advancement distinguished by several key features. Contextual Understanding: Compared to their simpler chatbot predecessors, LLMs have a far more sophisticated grasp of context.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
For me, ChatGPT is just another in a long line of technology-assisted tools that I accept may become a routine part of my professional/personal life. However, it did assure me that “ethical considerations, such as biases, fairness, and responsible deployment, remain important areas of concern as the technology evolves” (ChatGPT, 2023).
Campus Technology
MARCH 15, 2023
Expanded multi-modal MathGPT Platform possibilities mean any math content or curriculum can be turned into a personalized GPT-powered chatbot with interactive text, audio, and video learning, and GotIt can configure the platform to work with a wide variety of applications in math education, the company said.
University Business
APRIL 20, 2023
It’s no great revelation that today’s students are digital natives and view technology as an intrinsic part of how they navigate the world. However, despite their preference for using digital technology to complete day-to-day tasks, they crave interpersonal connections and relationship building.
Faculty Focus
MAY 2, 2023
“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?
Faculty Focus
MAY 9, 2024
In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. Do AI chatbots improve students learning outcomes? & Yu, Z.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
The technology is already making an impact in the classroom aside from applications like chatbots, according to Dr. Trey Conatser, director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky, and a member of the school’s ADVANCE committee, which studies the opportunities and challenges of AI in university settings. (..)
HEPI
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
From the AI explosion to the rise of chatbots and metaversities, rapid digital innovation is impacting university campuses, teaching and learning to an unprecedented extent. Then there’s the metaversity: immersive VR technology that allows remote students and academics to meet and learn on a virtual campus.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 14, 2023
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. The technology can also help professors plan syllabi and customize courses for different sorts of learners.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Since the beginning of the year, we have heard a lot about new technologies and how AI-powered tools are here to change how businesses work. AI-generated content refers to any form of text, image, audio, or video content that is created with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and technologies.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 4, 2023
Increasingly, there are signs that much of the technology prolific in the business sector could be leveraged to improve efficiencies in higher education. Consider robotic process automations (RPAs), customer relationship management tools (CRMs), and artificial intelligence like chatbots.
eLiterate
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
These stages can have implications for both how we can get seduced by these technologies and how we can get bitten by them. For example, you can tell it, “You are a helpful chatbot that teaches first-year college students about philosophy” and voila! You have a helpful philosophy-teaching chatbot. The Miracle.
Campus Technology
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Google has rebranded its Bard conversational AI chatbot and introduced tiered pricing model for access to advanced features.
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