{"id":67040,"date":"2019-04-29T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67040"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:32:37","slug":"how-blockchain-virtual-assistants-and-ai-are-changing-higher-ed-unglesbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/04\/29\/how-blockchain-virtual-assistants-and-ai-are-changing-higher-ed-unglesbee\/","title":{"rendered":"How blockchain, virtual assistants and AI are changing higher ed [Unglesbee]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/how-blockchain-virtual-assistants-and-ai-are-changing-higher-ed\/553434\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How blockchain, virtual assistants and AI are changing higher ed<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educationdive.com by Ben Unglesbee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the coming years, advanced technologies like mixed reality, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and virtual assistants could play a bigger role at colleges and universities, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.educause.edu\/-\/media\/files\/library\/2019\/4\/2019horizonreport.pdf?la=en&amp;hash=C8E8D444AF372E705FA1BF9D4FF0DD4CC6F0FDD1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new report<\/a>\u00a0from Educause, a nonprofit focused on IT&#8217;s role in higher ed.<\/li>\n<li>The 2019 Horizon Report, based on a panel of higher ed experts, zeroes in on trends, challenges and developments in educational technology. Challenges range from the &#8220;solvable,&#8221; such as improving digital fluency and increasing demand for digital learning experiences, to the &#8220;wicked.&#8221; The latter includes rethinking teaching and advancing digital equity.<\/li>\n<li>The panel contemplated blockchain&#8217;s use in higher ed for the first time in the 2019 report.\u00a0Specifically, the authors looked at its potential for creating alternative forms of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/more-colleges-are-using-the-blockchain-for-student-records\/542093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">academic records<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;could follow students from one institution to another, serving as verifiable evidence of learning and enabling simpler transfer of credits across institutions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How blockchain, virtual assistants and AI are changing higher ed &#8212; from educationdive.com by Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: In the coming years, advanced technologies like mixed reality, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and virtual assistants could play a bigger role at colleges and universities, according to\u00a0a new report\u00a0from Educause, a nonprofit focused on IT&#8217;s role in [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,224,819,115,302,823,286,3,565,195,206,214,312,253,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-augmented-reality","category-blockchain","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-credentialing","category-digital-learning","category-higher-education","category-mixed-reality","category-tools","category-trends","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67040","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=67040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67041,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67040\/revisions\/67041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}