The Silver Lining for Learning podcast featured the NSF Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education and DILab’s technology, Jill Watson, on their newest episode.
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 focuses 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.
Special guests Ashok Goel, Sandeep Kakar, and Kristy Singletary
