11/26/2024

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Opinions on chatbots? Essential innovation? Necessary evil? (Dystopian horror?) We’d love to hear your thoughts via Twitter or email.

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- Tom and Kelvin

29 min audio: Kelvin’s Keynote at the 2022 Distance Learning Administration Conference
“Countering the Great Resignation Through Distance Learning Administration” with transcript

In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin contemplate the potential for chatbots in online education as a benefit to online students and as a support to both faculty and student services staff.

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• Guatemalan Coffee History

• From Codebots: “What Are the 3 Types of AI? A Guide to Narrow, General, and Super Artificial Intelligence”
• “2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition”
• From Georgia Tech’s Design & Intelligence Lab: “Jill Watson: A Suite of Online Learning Tools”
• In the Washington Post: “What Happened When a Professor Built a Chatbot To Be His Teaching Assistant”
• In Scientific American: “Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters”
• UCF’s Financial Aid “KnightBot”
• Presentation Slides: “Legal Psychology Chatbot” (from UF educational technologist Chris Sharp)
• Dr. Jutta Treviranus’ 2022 Women in AI Award

• Video Version of this Episode!