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  • artificial intelligence, equity

Closing the Equity Gap with ChatGPT

Our work at Lumen is focused on eliminating race and income as predictors of student success in the US postsecondary setting. One thing we’ve learned as we’ve worked to erase this persistent gap in academic performance is that it is…

  • david
  • May 15, 2023
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  • artificial intelligence, improving learning, open content

LLMs, Embeddings, Context Injection, and Next Generation OER

If you can remember the web of 30 years ago(!), you can remember a time when all it took to make a website was a little knowledge of HTML and a tilde account on the university VAXcluster (e.g., /~wiley6/). While…

  • david
  • April 13, 2023
  • artificial intelligence, open content, politics, teaching

OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. The two are intertwined now in a manner that would be difficult to disentangle even if you wanted…

  • david
  • March 21, 2023
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  • artificial intelligence, research

Emerging Standards for Using LLMs Like ChatGPT in Research Publications

The journal Nature, and all other Springer Nature titles, have updated their Guide to Authors with rules for using LLMs like ChatGPT when writing research articles for the publication. To summarize, the rules say: 1. DO NOT list the LLM…

  • david
  • January 25, 2023
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  • artificial intelligence, instructional design, open content, sustainability

AI, Instructional Design, and OER

2022 saw some significant advancements in artificial intelligence. My threshold for “significant” here being that the advances moved out of labs and arXiv.org preprints and into tools that many people were using and talking about. Lots of people thought text-to-image…

  • david
  • January 23, 2023
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