{"id":58731,"date":"2017-03-07T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=58731"},"modified":"2017-03-07T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:27:59","slug":"chatbots-are-they-on-your-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/03\/07\/chatbots-are-they-on-your-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots &#8212; are they on your radar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Chatbots<\/strong> were another one of the topics <a href=\"https:\/\/higheredlearningspaces.iqpc.com\/a-smorgasbord-of-ideas-to-generate-innovative-big-thinking-at-your-institution-agendasection\" target=\"_blank\">I mentioned at the Next Generation Learning Spaces Conference<\/a> last week. <strong>For those of us working within higher education, chatbots need to be on our radars!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58732\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased.jpg 443w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>An article from today on this:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/07\/using-ai-chatbots-to-freeze-summer-melt-in-higher-ed.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Using AI Chatbots to Freeze \u2018Summer Melt\u2019 in Higher Ed<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from campustechnology.com by Sri Ravipati<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<br \/>\n<\/em>Students who accept offers of admission into a college or university don\u2019t always show up for fall enrollment \u2014 a phenomenon known as \u201csummer melt.\u201d It\u2019s a problem that Georgia State University (GSU) is all too familiar with: The institution\u2019s summer melt rates have increased from 12 percent to nearly 19 percent in recent years. With traditional methods of reaching students (i.e. snail mail, e-mail and phone calls) producing feeble results, GSU decided to try another approach: smart text messaging.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent case study, GSU was well aware of the advantages of communicating with students via text messages, but was concerned about the additional workload that text messaging students would place on existing staff. So, the university partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admithub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AdmitHub<\/a>, a Boston-based ed tech startup, to test out text-based intervention. AdmitHub works with higher ed institutions to create a virtual \u201ccampus coach\u201d that embodies the collective knowledge and unique spirit of a school\u2019s community. It integrates conversational artificial intelligence (AI) with human expertise to guide students to and through college.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the slides from my presentation on this:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58733\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chatbots-DChristian-NGLS2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chatbots-DChristian-NGLS2017.jpg 671w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chatbots-DChristian-NGLS2017-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Chatbots were another one of the topics I mentioned at the Next Generation Learning Spaces Conference last week. For those of us working within higher education, chatbots need to be on our radars! &nbsp; &nbsp; An article from today on this: Using AI Chatbots to Freeze \u2018Summer Melt\u2019 in Higher Ed &#8212; from [&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":[113,356,817,115,433,302,72,210,533,35,3,391,419,180,482,276,196,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-colleges","category-communications","category-community-colleges","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-interactivity","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58731"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58740,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731\/revisions\/58740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}