Online Learning in the Second Half

In this episode, John and Jason record with podcasting friends from ASU and West Chester University at OLC Innovate 2023 to talk about (what else) podcasting and humanizing online education in the second half. 
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Podcast Super-friends Links:
Course Stories Podcast at ASU
Course Stories, Episode #4: Don’t Fret Design: A Student-Centered Approach to Online Learning, with Brendan Lake
ODLI On Air at West Chester University
Resources:
- The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work
Guest Bios:
Arizona State UniversityMary Loder is an Online Learning Manager at EdPlus, supporting Faculty professional development and training along with managing special projects in a variety of disciplines. She is also co-creator and co-host of Course Stories, a podcast where an array of course design stories are told alongside other designers and faculty from Arizona State University.
Ricardo Leon is a Media Developer Sr for EdPlus and is a co-creator and co-host of Course Stories. He has developed a number of other podcasts and various other forms of instructional media.
Brendan Lake is the Director of Digital Learning for the ASU Thunderbird’s 100 Million Learners project offering no-cost management education in 40 languages.  He also moonlights as a music faculty member with ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Timothy McKean is the Manager of Online Learning for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU. He advocates for authentic assessment and ensures faculty presence and personality are highlighted in online learning. Tim can be heard as an online learning guest in several podcasts and youtube channels and does freelance audiobook and eLearning narration. 
West Chester UniversityDr. Tom Pantazes is an instructional designer and podcast cohost with the Office of Digital Learning and Innovation whose research examines the practical applications of interactive and multimedia content in digital instructional environments. Towards this end, his work seeks to connect learning theory with affordances of various technologies as they are utilized with students. If he is not building Legos, you can catch him on Twitter @TomPantazes.

In this episode, John and Jason walk the vendor floor at the OLC Innovate Conference in Nashville, TN - April 18-21, 2023 and ask the vendors how their product is helping to humanize online education.
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Vendors we talked with:
UWill
Instructure
Proctorio
PowerNotes
D2L - BrightspaceD2L Teaching & Learning Studio Podcast
Harmonize
InScribe
Join us in the next episode, EP 10, for a live OLC Podcast Superfriends Crossover Episode Extravaganza! And then in EP 11 we will wrap up our OLC Design Thinking Workshop on Humanizing Online Education.

In this episode, John and Jason talk about John’s use of AI in his doctoral mentoring and personal research, if prompt engineering will be a job, comparing large language models, detecting AI writing, and if AI can create a podcast theme song.
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AI Large Language Models to Test
ChatGPT
Poe.com
Bing Chat
Google Bard
AI in Research Tools
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
https://elicit.org/
https://consensus.app/ 
AI Detection Tools
https://www.zerogpt.com/
https://gptzero.me/ 
Links and Resources:
How to cite ChatGPT in APA
The Various AI Generated Podcast Theme songs Google docPlease comment and let us know what you think and what you like!
Research Papers:
“GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models” by Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin , and Daniel Rock. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130.pdf
“Artificial muses: Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Have Risen to Human-Level Creativity” by Jennifer Haase and Paul H. P. Hanel. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12003.pdf
Opening theme music: Pumped by RoccoW is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Closing theme music: Eye of the Learner - composed and arranged by Jason Johnston

In this episode, John and Jason talk about Jason’s recent bout with AI fever and what the rapid development of AI means for online education. 
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Links and Resources:
Hard Fork Podcast: the Bing Who Loved Me
Blog post on how Claude works. https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude
Q*Bert history and a fun free web playable version here
AI Release Timeline
Nov 9, 2022 YouChat (You.com) - Public beta based on GPT 3
Nov 30, 2022 ChatGPT 3.5 - OpenAI
Feb 7, 2023 Bing Chat (now based on 4)
Feb 24, 2023 Facebook / META LLaMA Announcement
March 14, 2023 - ChatGPT 4 - OpenAI
March 14, 2023 - Claude - Anthropic AI (Quora / Poe.com / DuckDuckGo )
March 21, 2023 - Google’s Bard
Research Papers
“Artificial muses: Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Have Risen to Human-Level Creativity” by Jennifer Haase and Paul H. P. Hanel. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12003.pdf
“GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models” by Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin , and Daniel Rock. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130.pdf
Theme Music: Pumped by RoccoW is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

In this episode, John and Jason talk about Jason’s first trip in a self-driving taxi, and how this might point to the future of online learning.
Links & Resources
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Jason’s YouTube video of his first trip in an autonomous car.
Waymo One - Autonomous ride-hailing service
Speedy Street Tacos, Phoenix
Sal Khan talks about Khanmigo 
6 Ways ChatGPT Save Teachers Time: Edutopia
John’s strawberry smoothie recipe
8 fl oz unsweetened almond milk (30 cal)
¾ cup (170 grams) Chobani Zero Sugar Vanilla Yogurt (70 cal)
~150-200 grams frozen strawberries from your grocer’s freezer section (56-75 cal)
Blend relentlessly until smooth (John uses a Ninja brand smoothie blender)
How Might We Use Design Thinking to Humanize Online Education? April 19, 2023 at OLC Innovate in Nashville, TN
Theme Music: Pumped by RoccoW is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

In this episode, John and Jason talk about if technology in education will always let us down, and the concerns and opportunities with AI. 
Links & Resources
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Jason’s YouTube video of the chat with Bing: Bing Chat Broke My Heart
Dr. Ian Malcolm Ethics Speech
Will elementary children in China put up with robot teachers?
Research Papers
Review of Literature on AI, Higher Ed, and Distance Learning: Where are the social scientists?
Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education – where are the educators? Link
The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Online Learning and Distance Education Processes: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies. Link
Ideas for Supporting Doctoral Student Writing
From Mushtaq Bilal’s tips on Twitter about smartly using AI to improve written academic work.
Check out this tweet and this tweet.
AI Businesses on the Horizon
​​Inflection AI, a startup working on a personal assistant for the web, could raise $675m, after raising $225m in 2022.
Character.ai — a company that hosts ChatGPT-like conversations in the style of various characters, from Elon Musk to Mario — is now valued at ~$1B.
Upcoming Presentations and Talks
UT TLI conference March 23rd 3-4:50 - first 500 free $20 after that.
“How Might We Use Design Thinking to Humanize Online Education?”John & Jason’s design thinking challenge session at OLC Innovate in Nashville
Wednesday April 19, 2023 - 3:45 PM to 4:30 PM
Message us on LinkedIn for details about the live meet and greet on April 20th
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In this episode, John and Jason talk about Jason’s recent experience with Bing Chat and what it might mean for the future of education. 
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Introducing your copilot for the web: AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Keynote and Bing Chat Intro
Bing is Snarky and Confesses
Jason’s Video: Bing Chat is Wrong and Gets Snarky!
Jason’s Video: Bing Chat testing new features and Bing Reveals its Name
Other Thinkers
Ethan Mollick on Substack 
“The future, soon: What I learned from Bing’s AI”
https://substack.com/inbox/post/103800124
“We are not ready for the future of Analytic Engines. I think every organization that has a substantial analysis or writing component to their work will need to figure out how to incorporate these new tools fast, because the competitive advantage gain is potentially enormous.  If highly-skilled writers and analysts can save 30-80% of their time by using AI to assist with basic writing and analysis, what does that mean?....I think we should be ready for a very weird world.”
AI Tools Aimed at Educators
Research Rabbit: https://www.researchrabbit.ai/ 
 
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In this episode, Jason and John talk about their initial experiences with ChatGPT. If there is educational value in generative AI, where does it reside? 
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AI Panel of Students at Frankfurt International School
Panel starts at about minute 24.
https://www.youtube.com/live/oIQ2zR3ym3g?feature=share
Contract Cheating’s African Labor - Chronicle of Higher Education
“Kenyan academic writers, who number more than 20,000, perform work for students in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere. ‘In every apartment building in Nairobi,’ says one, ‘you could find two, three writers.’”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/contract-cheatings-african-labor/ (Probable paywall)
“When the Machine Teaches the Human to be Human Centered”
John’s experience prompting ChatGPT to teach empathetic interviewing.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-machine-teaches-human-centered-john-nash
AI Generated Seinfeld
They have since taken down the AI Generated Seinfeld on Twitch but you can get the idea from this YouTube video.
Other Thinkers
Follow Ethan Mollick on Twitter
 
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In this episode, Jason and John talk about what this podcast is about. It’s not a show about nothing. We hope. 
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Readings
Boyd, D. (2016). What would Paulo Freire think of Blackboard: Critical pedagogy in an age of online learning. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 7(1).
Freire, P. (2005). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th Anniversary). Continuum.
 
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In this episode, Jason and John talk about why this podcast is called what it’s called.
Links and Resources:
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Book:
Hollis, J. (2018). Living an Examined Life. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc.
Live Event: Jason and John at OLC Innovate
“How Might We Use Design Thinking to Humanize Online Education?”
John & Jason’s design thinking challenge session at OLC Innovate in Nashville
Wednesday April 19, 2023 - 3:45 PM to 4:30 PM CST
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