Category Archives: chatbot

Hey Siri, what’s my day like today? Alexa what’s my next lesson? Okay Google, are my library books available?

Voice assistants are becoming not just more widespread, but also much more useful. Alexa was announced by Amazon in November 2014 alongside the Echo devices, which act as connected speakers and hubs for voice controlled devices. The Echo devices act as connected hubs complete with speakers and in some cases small screens. Cortana from Microsoft … Read more

Chat Bot Ready

Kate Nicolson, a Graduate Education Technologist at Jisc at the end of January attended the Social Software Development Meetup in Manchester. Here she discusses some of the presentations and thinking from the various presentations. The talk ‘the future of chat-bots’ by Gary Pretty in Manchester was not what I expected. Anticipating a social hypothetical discussion … Read more

Hey Siri, what do I need to learn?

Use Case: Contextual Learning with a Virtual Assistant What’s the issue? Virtual assistants, such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana, are increasingly available through Smartphones and other devices using varying levels of artificial intelligence (AI). As they become more and more popular they will be used  in education and taking learning out of the … Read more

What are our new priorities, and what next? #codesign17

There has been plenty of hype over artificial intelligence and the internet of things. We believe it may be time to put aside the cynicism that this kind of hype generates and look seriously at how we can take advantage of these emerging technologies to improve the student experience, research and the management of our … Read more

Join us for a live Tweetchat 20th January 2017

Join us for a live tweet chat on the subject of the intelligent campus by using #codesign17 on Friday 20 January 12:30-13:30. There has been plenty of hype over artificial intelligence and the internet of things. We believe it may be time to put aside the cynicism that this kind of hype generates and look seriously at how … Read more

Intelligent Campus: Next stage of Co-Design 2017

Late last year we kicked off a consultation to identify what big new ideas Jisc should focus on once we have completed our current R&D projects. That consultation focused on 6 possible challenges: What does the imminent arrival of the intelligent campus mean for universities and colleges? What should the next generation of digital learning … Read more