By Doug Ward
A chatbot in Adobe Acrobat became available to KU users last month after a new contract with Adobe took effect. The company had added a chatbot to Acrobat a couple of years ago, but KU had blocked access.
You will find the bot, known as AI Assistant, on the upper right side of the Acrobat app.
As many educators in the United States and Canada have held back or retreated on adapting courses to generative artificial intelligence, those in the rest of the world have pushed forward.
The approaches are in some cases so divergent that a new report from the Digital Education Council sometimes reads like two reports about two different worldviews of higher education.
By Doug Ward
Microsoft has recently added Copilot tools specifically for teachers.
By Doug Ward
A few eye-popping statistics help demonstrate the growing reach of generative AI:
By Doug Ward
The shock has worn off, but the questions about how to handle generative artificial intelligence in teaching and learning seem only to grow.
Those questions lack easy answers, but there are concrete steps you can take as we head into the third year of a ChatGPT world:
By Doug Ward
Canvas will soon be absorbed by KKR, one of the world’s largest investment firms.
That is unlikely to have any immediate effect on Canvas users. The longer-term effects – and costs – are impossible to predict, though.
Before you ban cellphones and laptops from your classroom, consider this: Students want to use those devices for learning and are looking to their instructors for guidance.
An organization called Reclaim Open Learning held its first symposium last week. The organization promotes innovation in higher education through the use of technology, online resources and open learning in unconventional ways.
Several faculty members and graduate students from KU attended this year’s conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I wasn’t able to go, though I did listen in on a few of the sessions remotely. I’ve collected tweets and videos into a Storify presentation that shows some of the thinking, conversations and approaches of the convention and the society.
Whenever I give workshops about teaching with technology, I try to provide a handout of resources.
This is one I distributed after workshops I led at the Best Practices Institute at CTE last week and at the School of Education. It’s a relatively modest list, but it includes sites for visualizing text; for editing images; for creating maps, charts, infographics; and for combining elements into a multimedia mélange.