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Communicating About the Crisis – with Help from Cowboy Joe
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/28/2020 | 1 comments
Today’s installment of What’s Next comes from Katie Carroll, Assistant Director of Admissions from the University of Wyoming. Katie shares with us how Wyoming is using Cowboy Joe, the institution’s chatbot, to help students, faculty, and staff navigate many of the challenges resulting from the pandemic. As the need for answering questions and providing information […]
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Algorithms, Diversity, and Privacy: Better Data Practices to Create Greater Student Equity
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 1/30/2020 | 0 comments
Data is Everywhere Everything we do online or out in the world is collected as data and stored. This data is tracked and analyzed and used to inform predictions about the future. Data about our spending habits informs companies about strategies for Internet advertising. Data about our values and interests informs online dating websites. And […]
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Adventures at the Consumer Electronics Show: the world’s largest “Digital Disney World,” the higher ed perspective
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 2/8/2019 | 0 comments
Executive director of WCET, Mike Abbiatti, recently attended the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. New and soon-to-be introduced electronic products are unveiled each year at the Show. The following blog contains the details and reflections of his adventure through the latest technological innovations. He also wonders what the impact of these new tools […]
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Using Artificial Intelligence for Personality Insights
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 5/18/2017 | 0 comments
This week WCET Frontiers is excited to offer something a little different… We all know and love WCET’s Russ Poulin. Here at WCET, several of us are excited about innovative activities and developments in Artificial Intelligence. This week, Rosa Calabrese puts IBM’s Watson to the test, to see if Watson can analyze and accurately capture […]
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Mission Accomplished: St. Leo’s New Ecosystem Transforms Learning
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 2/23/2017 | 1 comments
You’ve heard of course management tools, you’ve heard of ePortfolios… but you’ve never heard of this! This week we welcome Dr. Jeff Borden, the Chief Innovation Officer at Saint Leo University, to discuss the implementation of a new and exciting learning ecosystem. That’s right, an entire system with one goal: an infrastructure to transform learning […]
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Meet Maura, A Virtual Intelligent Agent Answering Student Services Questions
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 11/10/2016 | 1 comments
In the spring semester of 2013, American Sentinel University was experiencing the welcomed issue of high student traffic. The university had back-to-back years of significant growth in enrollment, and new degree program requirements were being implemented in the spring, naturally creating curiosity among the student population. While we encourage and are happy to talk with […]