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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:37:46 +0000

The AI Assessment Scale: Reflecting on AI in Assignment Design | Center for Teaching - The University of Iowa

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:38:00 +0000

AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) – Resources and information for the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:37:00 +0000

Compare Top 12 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Tools / Software

tags: RAG generative-AI GenAI AI retrieval emotional-intelligence

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:00 +0000

Three Observations - Sam Altman

tags: generative-AI AI
- In some sense, AGI is just another tool in this ever-taller scaffolding of human progress we are building together. In another sense, it is the beginning of something for which it’s hard not to say “this time it’s different”
- In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today
- . The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use
- Moore’s law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger.
- We are now starting to roll out AI agents, which will eventually feel like virtual co-workers.
- Or 1 million of them. Now imagine such agents in every field of knowledge work.
- imagine it as a real-but-relatively-junior virtual coworker. Now imagine 1,000 of them
- Agency, willfulness, and determination will likely be extremely valuable. Correctly deciding what to do and figuring out how to navigate an ever-changing world will have huge value; resilience and adaptability will be helpful skills to cultivate. AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less.
- We expect the impact of AGI to be uneven.
- But public policy and collective opinion on how we should integrate AGI into society matter a lot; one of our reasons for launching products early and often is to give society and the technology time to co-evolve.
- While we never want to be reckless and there will likely be some major decisions and limitations related to AGI safety that will be unpopular, directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.
- increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and getting this right may require new ideas.

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:37:00 +0000

From AI Tutor to AI Student - by Dr Philippa Hardman

tags: AI education tutor
- Teaching Others is a pedagogical approach where students teach concepts to others as a way of learning those concepts themselves
- But my focus has been on a particularly powerful pedagogical approach that has proven especially challenging to scale: Teaching Others.
- it lies in scaling high-impact pedagogical approaches that have traditionally been difficult or impossible to implement broadly.
- Perhaps the most well-known and most celebrated approach to teaching and learning is the vision of 1:1 Socratic coaching that guides students through complex problem-solving, one-on-one tutoring that adapts to individual learning paths, hands-on guided projects with immediate expert feedback.

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:37:00 +0000

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Where Open Education Meets Generative AI: OELMs – improving learning

tags: LLM AI education
- I am absolutely ready to predict that the large publishers will begin creating bundles of proprietary supplemental materials designed specifically for use with proprietary language models.
- we should take the initiative now to ensure that instructors who want to use LLMs as course materials have access to high quality, openly licensed options from the start.
- Those options should include both the models themselves and the additional resources necessary to use them easily and effectively.
- ensure that generative AI tools can move us forward on affordability, access, and equity instead of backward
- Open Educational Language Models (OELMs) bring together a collection of openly licensed components that allow an openly licensed language model to be used easily and effectively in support of teaching and learning
- But because the model weights are open, we have the opportunity to revise and remix them
- Because the model weights are open, we can change the way learners and teachers interact with them in order to increase access, affordability, and equity. Because the model weights are open, we have significantly greater agency
- An OELM includes a comprehensive collection of pre-written prompts
- For teachers, these activities might include lesson planning, designing an active learning exercise for use in class, differentiating instruction, revising or remixing OER, and drafting feedback on student work.
  - what about students? students should have access to the prompts as well...
- When a teacher or learner submits a prompt to the model, before the prompt is sent to the model, relevant information is searched for in the collection of OER and added to the prompt.
- The model then uses the information it has retrieved from the OER as the basis for its response to the user, augmenting its general knowledge about the topic before generating a response.
- specially designed collection of open content that can be used to steer the model’s behavior
- This can be embedded in the system prompt (a prompt which the user doesn’t see but which steers model behavior in the background) or used for fine-tuning.
- In the OELM context, fine-tuning is the process by which a model can be made to behave more pedagogically
- Each of these four components – the model weights, content for fine-tuning, content for RAG, and pre-written prompts – can be openly licensed, providing teachers, learners, and others with permission to engage in the 5R activities.
  - Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute
- Think of the model weights as the core textbook and the other components as the supplemental materials necessary for widespread adoption.
- And just like with traditional OER, the ability to copy, edit, and share prompts and other OELM components means they can be localized in order to best meet the needs of individual learners,
- The foundational R in the 5Rs framework is Retain
- Then you can take that copy you downloaded and revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute it to meet your needs and the needs of others around you.
- small models are a key to this strategy over the medium to long-term.
- Advances in running models locally are important because people without reliable access to the internet are currently unable to take advantage of generative AI in support of teaching and learning.

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:37:00 +0000

View of The Global Micro-credential Landscape: Charting a New Credential Ecology for Lifelong Learning

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:37:00 +0000

Addressing the Real Challenges of Microcredentials

" the real challenges institutions face when trying to expand their microcredential offerings"
- the real challenges institutions face when trying to expand their microcredential offerings
- While these kinds of programs have long served adult learners looking to update their job skills or switch careers, research shows students fresh out of high school are flocking to them in greater and greater numbers. Learners ages 18 to 20 completed more certificates at higher ed institutions than any other age group during the 2022–23 academic year, according to an April 2024 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Nearly 154,000 young learners earned certificates that year—an 11 percent increase over the previous year—among the 670,665 certificate earners across all ages.
- Many colleges and universities remain unsure of how to effectively launch and grow new microcredentials.
- US average of 64 microcredentials per institution reported in a recent UPCEA survey.
- The slow growth of microcredentials is largely due to the challenges colleges and universities face in implementing and expanding them, especially when attempting to do so in a centralized (or at least coordinated) manner.
- Finding reliable platforms to facilitate enrollment and payment for non-matriculated students (i.e., those not currently enrolled, for non-American readers). These systems should ideally track enrollments, direct payments to specific units, and handle functions such as wait-listing and refunds.
- Understanding the ecosystem and market for these tools, and how different segments intersect.
- Providing access to a learning management system (LMS) for non-matriculated students who don’t have regular university IDs
- Developing a more lightweight social ID for non-matriculated students, and determining what systems and supports
- Devising a business model and marketing strategy for microcredentials, which are typically priced far lower than degrees.
- Identifying and creating market-attractive microcredentials in an agile manner, often requiring new pedagogical approaches and course design methods that involve teams rather than individual instructors.
- Collaborating with the corporate sector to integrate real-world expertise into microcredentials and foster recognition of these credentials, particularly in the absence of widespread standards.
- these challenges, and potential solutions, are rarely addressed in the flood of publications on microcredentials
- Many sources on microcredentials focus heavily on defining what they are and fitting them into one of the larger frameworks that have been developed, such as the New Zealand Quality and Credentials Framework, the Australian National Micro-credential Framework, and the European Approach to Micro-credentials for Lifelong Learning and Employability, to name a few.
- I understand the need for definitions and frameworks, as they are important tools for addressing issues like shared language, quality assurance, and recognition by other educational institutions and employers.
- Frameworks are certainly useful and will be essential for developing standards for recognizing and transferring microcredentials. This work, for instance, is critical for standards bodies. But for those of us working on the ground, it’s time to move beyond comparing and perfecting frameworks. We need to focus on developing, supporting, and growing actual microcredential offerings.
- the primary model they use with higher education institutions is to offer microcredentials alongside a degree for currently enrolled students.
- You see this throughout the survey report but especially in the emphasis on offering microcredentials for credit.
- need to focus on explaining and exploring the challenges outlined at the beginning of this post, as well as other complex, hands-on issues colleges and universities face when rolling out microcredentials.

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:37:00 +0000

What’s happening with digital education credentials across Europe, from a US perspective

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:38:00 +0000

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

tags: tool chatbot
SimuLearn.ai

tags: instructional design ai simulation
JSON Syntax

tags: json
What is YAML?

tags: markup-language
Download the Free User’s Guide to the TRACI Prompt Framework for ChatGPT

tags: chatGPT
Digital Learning Texas

tags: credentials

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:38:00 +0000

National framework for microcredentials – Colleges and Institutes Canada

tags: framework microcredentials
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold

tags: generative-AI artificial-intelligence
How to win with generative engine optimization while keeping SEO top-tier

tags: seo optimization
Why agents are the next frontier of generative AI | McKinsey

tags: generative-AI artificial-intelligence agents mckinsey
- “agentic” systems refer to digital systems that can independently interact in a dynamic world.
- Gen AI agents eventually could act as skilled virtual coworkers, working with humans in a seamless and natural manner.
- a human user could direct a gen AI–enabled agent system to accomplish a complex workflow. A multiagent system could then interpret and organize this workflow into actionable tasks, assign work to specialized agents, execute these refined tasks using a digital ecosystem of tools, and collaborate with other agents and humans to iteratively improve the quality of its actions
- Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others have invested in software libraries and frameworks to support agentic functionality.
- shifting from being knowledge-based to becoming more action-based.
- The value that agents can unlock comes from their potential to automate a long tail of complex use cases characterized by highly variable inputs and outputs
- Agents can manage multiplicity
- Agent systems can be directed with natural language.
- Because agentic systems use natural language as a form of instruction, even complex workflows can be encoded more quickly and easily.
- done by nontechnical employees
- Foundation models can learn how to interface with tools, whether through natural language or other interfaces.
- control mechanisms are essential to balance autonomy and risk
- create a learning flywheel for ongoing improvement

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:38:00 +0000

Análise de Dados para Workforce Management | Coursera

tags: microcredentials ABED workforce
- Análise de Dados para Workforce Management Specialization

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:38:00 +0000

Universidade Estadual de Campinas Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Universidade de São Paulo Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Insper Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Fundação Lemann Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Fundação Instituto de Administração Online Courses | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Partners | Coursera

tags: ABED microcredentials
Unlocking a world of opportunities for LATAM learners and institutions - Coursera Blog

tags: ABED microcredentials
Coursera app active users by country Latin America 2020 | Statista

tags: microcredentials ABED
OCDE promove webinário sobre microcredenciais para | Observatório EPT

tags: microcredentials ABED
Revista Ensino Superior | Admirável futuro da educação superior aborda o microcredenciamento

tags: microcredentials ABED
Microcredenciais: como elas impulsionam a carreira

tags: microcredentials ABED
O que é Microcredencial? - Nosso Aprender

tags: microcredentials ABED
Coursera é grátis? Tem cursos em português com certificado?

tags: microcredentials ABED
20+ New Courses in Portuguese for Your Career - Coursera Blog

tags: microcredentials ABED
Instituições brasileiras lançam curso... | Guia do Estudante

tags: microcredentials ABED
Open, Interoperable Data for Actionable Credential Ecosystems | Credential Engine

tags: microcredentials
What is a microcredential? Here’s what you should know - OSU

tags: microcredentials
Employer Perceptions of Higher Ed Partnerships | Collegis Education

tags: microcredentials
Understanding America’s Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted Industries | U.S. Chamber of Commerce

tags: microcredentials
Counting U.S. Secondary and Postsecondary Credentials Report (2022) | Credential Engine

tags: microcredentials credentials
Employer Demand for Microcredentials On the Rise, New Study From UPCEA and Collegis Education Reveals - UPCEA

tags: microcredentials
- Ninety-five percent of those surveyed said they saw benefits from microcredentials, particularly because they show an employee’s willingness to develop their skills (76 percent); demonstrate initiative (63 percent) and are an easy way to communicate employee competencies and skills (60 percent).
- Organizational leaders were particularly interested in stackable credentials leading to a degree with 80 percent saying that increased their appeal.
- Microcredentials can play a critical role in the new economy. However, similar to how online degrees were perceived two decades ago, some are critical about the quality of non-degree programs, despite a lack of evidence to support a systematic problem,
- organizational leaders value microcredentials and non-degree programming but are often unaware of them
- a pervasive issue lies in their standardization and how to properly assess the validity and applicability of courses and certifications
- 20 percent of survey respondents had little or no concern that non-degree or alternative credentials will have an adverse effect on the workforce, 17 percent were concerned about wrong/not relevant credentials/lack critical skills/training, 12 percent cited quality of education/validating credentials, and 11 percent specified a lack of educational/professional experience
- When choosing a college or university to collaborate with to develop a microcredential program, organizational leaders said they are incentivized by proof of program effectiveness (65 percent) and more than 50 percent want to play a role in the program’s development.
- While the report reveals a significant microcredential market opportunity for higher ed, only 44 percent of organizations reported having been approached by a college or university about a potential program

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:38:00 +0000

Our Customers - Insider

tags: whatsapp
Arquivo Casos de sucesso - Zenvia

tags: whatsapp
WhatsApp Business API | Twilio

tags: whatsapp
SMS Messaging, Voice, Email, Video & Verification APIs | Sinch
Concepto Móvil - Conecta con tus clientes interactuando por el canal y momento correcto.

tags: whatsapp
WhatsApp Business API (Cloud & On-premise) | Official BSP

tags: whatsapp
WhatsApp Demo ES - indigitall

tags: whatsapp
Fact Sheets | Credential Engine

tags: credentials
EDUCAUSE and WCET QuickPoll Results: Current Trends in Microcredential Design and Delivery | EDUCAUSE Review

tags: microcredentials
Where are microcredentials today-and where are they going? - eCampus News

tags: microcredentials
The Rise and Future of Microcredentials in Higher Education | BestColleges

tags: credentials
- - Microcredentials are short, stackable, and skills-based non-degree credentials.
  - Researchers estimated a 95% increase in the availability of microcredential programs between 2021 and 2022.^{Note Reference [1]}
  - Popular microcredential providers include EdX, Coursera, LinkedIn, Udacity, and many four-year colleges and universities.
  - Companies looking to upskill their workforces in a period of rapid digital transformation may turn to microcredentials as a solution.
- Enter the concept of microcredentials: short, stackable, non-degree credits that help learners build competencies and show off their skills to employers.
- Microcredentials are gaining popularity among employers — who need to rapidly train employees in emerging fields — and among career climbers who want to advance in the workforce in a timely and cost-effective way.
- Microcredentials are short learning modules
- Often, students can stack, combine, or bundle microcredentials to demonstrate subject mastery.
- Short: You can earn a microcredential in less time than a degree. For example, Oregon State University's microcredentials consist of 9-12 credits. A full bachelor's degree is 180 credit
- Stackable: You can collect microcredentials or digital badges to demonstrate more advanced skills. For example, the University of Central Oklahoma offers microcredential bundles in computer science, diversity and inclusion, and more subjects. And at SUNY Broom Community College, you can apply credits earned in a web development microcredential toward an associate degree in web development.
- Skills-Based: By the end of the program, you should be able to demonstrate a specific competency or ability, like viral content creation, machine learning for business, or classroom management for educators
- The European Commission has offered a clear definition for microcredentials, stating that they represent records of learning outcomes that a learner has acquired following a small volume of learning, which is assessed against transparent and clearly defined criteria
- In other words, for a course of study to qualify as a microcredential, it must meet a certain quality standard and provide proof that students learned something.
Microcredentials Toolkit [DRAFT] - Open UToronto

tags: microcredentials
Microcredentials: a guide for educators and students| THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect

tags: microcredentials