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Unique biweekly insights and news review from Ray Schroeder, Senior Fellow at UPCEA.
Where Will Generative AI Lead?
I just returned from the largest-ever UPCEA Annual conference in Washington DC. More than 1,000 leaders in professional, continuing and online education gathered to learn, share and prepare for the future. I had the privilege to greet hundreds of those as they registered for the conference on Wednesday. Many of those attending were excited about…
AI is Impacting Education, But the Best is Yet to Come!
When generative AI came rolling out of development lab obscurity last year, most of us were surprised – even shocked. AI has always been a path to streamline production and distribution. In the past, it had come to replace blue collar jobs. When I first tried it out in August, I wrote in this column, “Higher…
The Emerging New Task and Partner for Higher Education
We have a new partner in higher education to assist with fulfilling our primary mission. What is our primary mission? I turned to our new partner to briefly articulate that, “The primary mission of higher education is to provide advanced learning opportunities beyond the high school level, with the aim of developing a highly skilled…
In the Coming Weeks, How to Respond to Generative AI
Many were taken by surprise by the emergence of highly-sophisticated large language models. Notice was taken last year with OpenAI GPT-3. I was amazed last August, when I first asked GPT-3 to write a sample article about the impact of GPT on higher education. It responded with an accurate, cogent 700-word piece in just seconds.…
Remaining Relevant in a Changing Higher Ed
How can you remain relevant in higher education in 2023? In a field that has remained relatively unchanged over the decades, higher education is overdue for a major makeover to adjust to the changes over the decades in our society. We have lost affordability and relevance to many prospective students and employers. As a result,…
GPT in Higher Education
ChatGPT has caught our attention in higher education. What will it mean in 2023? First, let’s do a quick review on the technology. GPT has become the internet’s best-known language processing AI model. The initials stand for Generative Pretrained Transformer. That’s not a very descriptive title to the non-AI person. OpenAI developed the hot new…
Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus, Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) and Senior Fellow at UPCEA. Each year, Ray publishes and presents nationally on emerging topics in online and technology-enhanced learning. Ray’s social media publications daily reach more than 12,000 professionals. He is the inaugural recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Online Leadership Award, recipient of the University of Illinois Distinguished Service Award, the United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame Award, and the American Journal of Distance Education/University of Wisconsin Wedemeyer Excellence in Distance Education Award 2016.