A full cloth bag of conference swag with an adorable plush llama on top

Done my swag walk at #nercomp25 and have multiple plush toys, including this adorable #llama

New Mexico State University is working with Nagarro and Microsoft to implement a tutor bot that will be used by human advisors and students. It’s a solution implement on Microsoft Azure which uses OpenAI technology.

#OpenAI #nercomp25 #higherEd

It’s clear to the panel that #AI is not going to replace human advisors. It’s going to be a tool that advisors will use to leverage insights from large amounts of data.

#nercomp25 #highereducation

Panel on AI powered advising

Panelists at NERCOMP

One of the biggest challenges of advising students is architecting AI solutions that get the big picture of a student’s performance, struggles, and vision of success.

#AI #NERCOMP #NERCOMP25 #LMS #HigherEd

A black foldable camp chair, branded FORTINET is open on a bed in a fairly generic hotel room.

A smartphone is plugged in, using a Softdocs branded multi charger, to one of FIVE available USB charging stations in a hotel nightstand

The multichargers available as swag from a lot of vendors is actually pretty handy, but I won a "Big Win" prize at the Fortinet table and got a chair! Two years ago I won a nice flask (alas empty) from their putting green #nercomp25

A chatbot that was easy to use to answer account provisioning questions

The objectives for the presentation

Slide: the future of account provisioning with AI-enhanced tools

Anna and Krithik presenting at NERCOMP ‘25

Anna Ahearn and Krithik Udayashankar from UCLA are sharing their process for implementing AI-enhanced tools to help with account provisioning.

Their vision was to introduce an AI-powered chatbot to assist employees with questions about account provisioning.

#nercomp #nercomp25 #ai #highered

Mitigating the bias in AI. Slide

Heidi presenting the discussion around biases

What’s our biggest concern around bias in AI? Values, content, culture, design, interface, evolution

Questions and answers from attendees

🤖 How do we mitigate the bias of AI models?

Interesting discussions in this session. If we know AI is biased because of the training data, how can we improve the usage of its data?

#AI #NERCOMP25 #nercomp

EphBot configuration screen

EphBot is a portable device to explore the power of #GenAI at Williams. It uses Raspberry Pi and llama to provide an interface for students to not just interact but also configure predictions, temperature, tokens, and repeat sequence.

“You can make it hallucinate if you want.”

#nercomp25

EphBot: a physical device to explore gen AI

Ollama case study

Trevor presenting about OpenVINO

A few reasons why you may not want to use cloud services with student data

Great way to start NERCOMP: Keep your data close and your #AI closer at #nercomp25.

3 case studies about solutions that couldn’t leverage cloud tools and required solutions that were locally deployed and accessed.

- Ollama
- OpenVINO
- Raspberry Pi + llama

#AI #nercomp25 #nercomp #highered

#NERCOMP25 We're in the multiverse of work--this timeline would never have happened without the pandemic.

#NERCOMP25 Jennifer Moss talking about the future of work. Cheery!

Let's go #NERCOMP25

EDUCAUSE HULK HAPPY TO BE AT #NERCOMP25! BUT DID NOT BRING BADGE RIBBON! LUCKY THAT FRIEND OF EDUCAUSE HULK CAN SHOW FRIEND WITH LANYARD COLOR!