The National AI Institute for Adult Learning & Online Education (AI-ALOE): Featuring Jill Watson

Episode notes

The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) is a research institute led by the Georgia Institute of Technology. AI-ALOE is a leader in developing cutting-edge AI applications for improving online adult education. These efforts are bidirectional - AI is used to transform online adult learning and online adult learning to transform AI. These transformations are not “ just doing things better ” but “ doing better things ” in effectiveness, efficiency, access, scale, and personalization. The podcast will focus on a generative-AI-based virtual teaching assistant, Jill Watson. Developed by researchers at AI-ALOE, Jill Watson is deployed on the class learning management system to engage in extended, cognitively-rich and factually grounded one-on-one conversations with students about topics in instructor-approved course materials anytime and anywhere. With its reach, Jill Watson affords opportunities for improving and democratizing post-secondary learning. Readings and Resources: , Taneja, Karan, Pratyusha Maiti, Sandeep Kakar, Pranav Guruprasad, Sanjeev Rao, & Ashok K. Goel.

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