TutorOcean’s Post

This week's #WorthKnowing Thursdays shares my takeaways from a great working paper on #GenAI 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 🇦🇺 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 authored by Danny Liu, Tim Fawns, Michael Cowling, and Adam Bridgeman. The takeaways are in the attached PDF, and the #link to the publication is in the comments. #sebahspicks #worthKnowingThursdays #edchat #artificialintelligence #highereducation #australia

Dear convofriends! Happy to announce that there WILL be an October cohort for GenAI design for conversations and content! And it's open for enrollment right now, details in the first comment. An important foundation of my course is that I don't just teach how design things, but I also feel it's important that you understand some of the underlying technical concepts. To give you little preview, here's an explainer of RAG, including a look at actual chunks and vectors in MindStudio, the platform that we use in this course for building our GenAI applications. Headsup: linguistic nerdery at the end! 🤓 #conversationalai #generativeai #fortheloveoflearning

Looking forward to co-presenting with Amanda Keesee, Ph.D. next week in Salt Lake. It you're at the 1EdTech Consortium "Learning Conference" next week, we hope you can catch our presentation. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) can revolutionize higher education if instructors and administrators are willing to take on the challenges. In this presentation, we explore the landscape of AI adoption within Oklahoma's higher education sector, examining it through the lenses of teaching, policies, and IT." I'll be talking about teaching and Amanda will be talking about an IT perspective. https://lnkd.in/gQJGu3bc

Our Global Client Evangelist, Ishan, spoke to a group of Finnish education experts in London last night about the value of AI when used with nuance. Read all about his experience in this thoughtful post. #edtech #digitalassessment #ai

I will be part of a panel discussion this week titled "Utilizing technology to improve student retention and engagement" where I will focus on some of the tools we are building using AI to help both students and faculty members be more efficient and effective with their time. Let me know if you are attending and want to discuss these types of issues! #edtech #AIineducation

Here's a video case study on our work with STIR education in Indonesia, a great NGO who are focussed on helping teachers love teaching and students to love learning. https://lnkd.in/eij_YX8Q We interviewed over 500 respondents and then delivered their impact report using our AI. While not perfect (it still needs some human editing) the process of discovering qual and quant insights is much faster. My sense is this will be how this works in the future for most development banks and NGOs: Humans and machines working together rather than machines taking over entirely. We've now interviewed thousands of people using avatar technology in 15 countries and this was our first project in Indonesia. My thanks to STIR, particularly John McIntosh, Yoni Nurdiansyah, and everyone involved in the pilot.

As students up and down the country sit their GCSEs, those who have been tutored may feel prepared to come through the stress of exams. However employing a tutor is expensive and – however qualified the teacher – far from a perfect solution. Tassomai, third on our #EdTech 50 ranking this year, believes it could have the answer with #AI tutor Mai. "By leveraging our data, we found we were able to make in Mai a compelling, powerful in-app tutor with tremendous capabilities,” founder and CEO Murray Morrison tells us. “Tuition with Mai can guide a student on a really human level and draw the right answers out of them, from their own knowledge and memory, and then help them to build on that. “The result is that Mai stands an amazing chance of replacing conventional tutoring in the near future.” Mai is also available 24/7 – at the precise moment the student needs them. “This is a huge advantage over conventional tuition where students need to recall, in a scheduled session, something they struggled with days earlier… that is practically impossible,” says Morrison. https://lnkd.in/etH7S586

Is anyone a subscriber to @edweek? The piece on AI (page 9) is a worthy discussion. Not a new one. If you read the article... do you think all teachers can sway and shift their teaching strategies to incorporate AI like this English teacher, Mr. Sell? And, will credentialing programs support future teachers how to use AI rather than traditional teaching methods? Lastly, is it important that HS graduates can write on their own with out AI? https://ew.edweek.org #education #newtimes #AI

The AI Assessment Scale has been published in the Oxford Brookes ANTF GenAI innovation Project! If you still don't know what I'm on about when I say #AIAS, read this 500 word piece! https://lnkd.in/gmuvZH7F

Writing in our new report, David Weller of the University of Exeter suggests: “Teachers will have to come up with more interesting ways to set homework that doesn’t rely on lower order skills such as memorisation and regurgitating facts.” To read what else he thinks, check out our latest report “Friend or foe? Teacher attitudes to artificial intelligence”. #AIinEducation #TeachingFuture #EdTech