MSTU 5030: Intelligent Computer-Assisted Instruction - GHuntley Blog

Break Through Tech Branding Assistant When I began to brainstorm the type of chatbot I wanted to create, I quickly settled on one that could help with some of the pain points inherent in my current job.  Currently, I work as a Communications Manager for a national organization called Break Through Tech . It's my job to help our staff, both those at the national site and those at all of our affiliate sites, become empowered communicators in a way that aligns with our organizational brand.  One of the obstacles that I've run into in that process is that staff aren't very inclined to utilize the online brand book that we've created. I decided to build a chatbot that could serve as a friendly guide and expert on my organization's brand book.  In the end, I created two types of chatbots, one that helped users through proscribed answers and that allows users to ask their own questions.  Feel free to try out the open-ended bot by clicking on the blue chat icon to the righ...

Learning about others, decision making, and autonomous features Reflection Option #1: Referring to the assigned articles for this week, as well as past readings, what are the different ways that learning analytics/educational data mining in relation to AI can:  assist individual self-regulatory learning,  facilitate successful collaborative learning assess the state and flow of a classroom in real-time. There has been an idea that big data from data mining will enable researchers to build intelligent tutoring systems. This essentially means that we would be able to "develop rich student models that can be used...[for] automated personalization" for things like automated interventions (Baker, 2016, p. 604-605).  Currently, there exists a wide array of systems that can provide step-by-step feedback on student activities or emulate complex student-tutor relationships. However, few of these systems are used at scale. Instead, the systems that are used at scale tend towards...

Find a dialogue-based/conversational agent online For my dialogue-based/conversational agent, I selected Eliza, a computer program that emulates a Rogerian therapist.  a) a fruitful engaging conversation Me: I'm feeling tired today. Eliza: Do you believe it is normal to be feeling tired today? Me: I think so. I have a lot of things on my plate. Eliza: Do you really think so. Me: I do.  Eliza: OK..."I think so. You have a lot of things on your plate." Tell me more.  Me: Well, I"m juggling full-time work, schoolwork, an academic internship, and trying to make time for friends and family.  Eliza: Did you come to me because you're juggling full-time work, school work, an academic internship, and trying to make time for friends and family? Me: Yes. I don't know how to make time for everything.  Eliza: Don't you really know how to make time for everything? b) an unfruitful (failed) conversation on a topic of your choice, and share an example of each: Eliza: Hel...