An evaluation of Contact North’s AI tools for teachers/instructors: Faculty Assistant
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I am in the process of evaluating a suite of AI tools from Contact North, Ontario, for students, instructors and administrators.
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An evaluation of Contact North’s AI tools for teachers/instructors: Multiple choice questions
Evaluating AI tools for teaching and learning
I am in the process of evaluating a suite of AI tools from Contact North, Ontario, for students,...
A personal history: 29. Strategic planning for e-learning: a personal case-study
I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....
A personal history: 28. Croatia and Chile
I've been a bad blogger. It's over a month since my last post. Put it down to being fully retired and having other interests....
A personal history: 27. Working and playing in Mexico
I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....
The crisis in higher education: 8. Thinking outside the box
Overview
I have argued that public higher education institutions can no longer depend on ever increasing revenues for survival. In an era of mass higher...
The crisis in universities and colleges: 6: too much (useless) research
Research: more is not better
One way in which the costs of post-secondary education could be significantly reduced without reducing the quality of undergraduates is...
Universities and Colleges in Crisis: 5. Reducing the costs of courses and programs
The challenge
In an earlier post, I suggested that post-secondary institutions needed to reduce the costs of degrees or diplomas by 30% to win back...
Universities and Colleges in Peril: 4. Reducing costs
The need to reduce costs
In three previous posts, I tried to make the case that public universities and colleges were losing the support and...
Universities and colleges in crisis: 3. The need to focus on costs rather than...
Universities and colleges in peril
In two previous posts (That was the year 2024, that was and Universities and Colleges in Peril) I argued that...