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CFP: AI Institute at Clover Park Technical College

Posted on April 18, 2024 by geoffcain

Clover Park Technical College has a CFP for its 2024 AI Institute, which examines the innovative and ethical use of AI in higher education. This event will take place on Fri., Aug. 9th and Sat., Aug., 10th, 2024. We invite … Continue reading →

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AI: An “F” for Fake

Posted on January 10, 2024 by geoffcain

I have been playing with voice cloning to try and get a sense of where the technology is and how it can be used in instructional design. There are a number of moral and legal issues with voice cloning, of … Continue reading →

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Edu Predictions: Where is my conveyor belt sidewalk?

Posted on January 5, 2024 by geoffcain

I have been rather disappointed lately that over the last few years we have not had much in the way of predictions in the education sector. For a while there it seemed like pedagogical prognostic punditry was a wide-spread New … Continue reading →

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Efforts to Regulate A.I.

Posted on November 3, 2023 by geoffcain

I have not posted here in a while because of conferences, in-service, travel, and other local elearning events – it was a whirl-wind summer of AI in Education, a conference at University of Central Florida. We then presented with our … Continue reading →

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Brief Notes on Issues Around ChatGPT

Posted on July 12, 2023 by geoffcain

Here are some quick notes around issues around ChatGPT: Lack of corporate transparency from the mis-named Open AI (Silicon Republic) Ethical issues around labor practices with Open AI (Time) Difficulties with attribution (Duke University) Unresolved copyright issues (Bloomberg Law) Spreading … Continue reading →

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Mastodon and a Sense of Community

Posted on February 16, 2023 by geoffcain

This is just a quick update on my experiences moving from Twitter to Mastodon. I am very happy with my move out of the Twitter dumpster fire. At first, it was a real shock pulling myself out of the dozen … Continue reading →

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AI and the Death of the College Essay

Posted on December 9, 2022 by geoffcain

The Atlantic’s December issue has an essay “The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia” by Stephen Marche that says that AI is going to make the college essay irrelevant. I say good riddance. … Continue reading →

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What is “Instructional Design”?

Posted on October 21, 2022 by geoffcain

I like to revisit this question every year because as education changes and evolves, so does the definition of instructional design. Postings like these are always unsatisfactory because it is difficult to say that there is one thing that we … Continue reading →

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New Book – Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning

Posted on February 25, 2021 by geoffcain

Audrey Watters has written a new book about the history of education technology: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning. When I get a hold of a copy, I will write something up here and link to other reviews. A … Continue reading →

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Exploring the OSCQR Course Design Rubric

Posted on December 9, 2020 by geoffcain

In my work as an education consultant and instructional designer, I often collaborate with faculty and departments with course design rubrics. Previously in this blog I did a series of posts reviewing course design rubrics. My work has shown that … Continue reading →

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