{"id":56508,"date":"2016-08-23T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56508"},"modified":"2016-08-23T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:23:35","slug":"why-every-college-campus-needs-a-chatbot-brandon-plus-will-some-of-our-job-descriptions-be-changing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/08\/23\/why-every-college-campus-needs-a-chatbot-brandon-plus-will-some-of-our-job-descriptions-be-changing-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why every college campus needs a chatbot [Brandon]; plus, will some of our job descriptions be changing soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why every college campus needs a\u00a0chatbot<\/strong> <\/a>— from venturebeat.com by John Brandon<\/p>\n

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Dropping a child off at college is a stressful experience. I should know \u2014 I dropped off one last week and another today. It\u2019s confusing because everything is so new, your child (who is actually a young adult, how did that happen?) is anxious, and you usually have to settle up on your finances.<\/p>\n

This situation happens to be ideal for a chatbot, because the administrative staff is way too busy to handle questions in person or by phone. There might be someone directing you in the parking lot, but not everyone standing around in the student center knows how to submit FAFSA<\/a> data.
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\nOne of the main reasons for thinking of this is that I would have used one myself today. It\u2019s a situation where you want immediate, quick information without having to explain all of the background information. You just need the campus map or the schedule for the day \u2014 that\u2019s it. You don\u2019t want any extra frills.<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nMy question is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Will Instructional Designers, Technical Communicators, e-Learning Designers, Trainers, (and other positions as as well) going to have to know how to build chatbots in the future? Our job descriptions could be changing soon. <\/strong>Or will this kind of thing require more programming-related skills? Perhaps more firms like the one below could impact that situation…
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\"Chatfuel-Aug2016\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why every college campus needs a\u00a0chatbot — from venturebeat.com by John Brandon Excerpts: Dropping a child off at college is a stressful experience. I should know \u2014 I dropped off one last week and another today. It\u2019s confusing because everything is so new, your child (who is actually a young adult, how did that happen?) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,435,356,817,115,433,302,45,200,72,210,37,3,391,180,482,124,17,309,204,118,214,312,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-colleges","category-communications","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-corporate-universities","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-future","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-learning-agents","category-platforms","category-programming","category-training-corporate-universities","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56508"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56518,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56508\/revisions\/56518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}