Tag: Cornell University

Working with AWS, Cornell University built Socratic Chat, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that delivers personalized Socratic teaching at scale. By fall 2024, over 500 students across multiple courses were using the tool, spending 10-15 minutes per assignment, working through progressively harder questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy—freeing Ault and other professors to focus on in-depth instruction. Read this post to learn more.

What if you could get trusted answers from a leading veterinary college, any time of day, from anywhere? That’s the idea behind Big Red Bark Chat, a generative AI-powered chatbot developed by the Cornell Richard P. Riney Canine Health Center (RCHC) at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in collaboration with AWS.

Over 5,850 education leaders traveled to Denver, Colorado, to engage on topics and discussions in higher education IT. Throughout the week, we shared ways to increase access to learning and improve student outcomes – from bringing Amazon Alexa voice technology to campus to improving current educational technologies with machine learning. In case you missed it, read on for key themes and takeaways.