i) ChallengeThe student-educator ratio in higher education is high. This leads to challenges for both:Educators can’t promote formative assessment in their teaching.Students don’t get personalised feedback to increase their learning.Chatbots have the potential of tackling both these challenges. The technology is ready, but the implementation in higher education is still in its infancy. The main reason is the lack of knowledge in how to implement and train the chatbots for specific scenarios in higher education.ii) SolutionWe will define current state of the art and pilot pedagogical chatbots for education from Hubert and Differ at 5 universities in year 1 of the project. Shared knowledge and learning will make the basis for the first iterations of case studies and best practices documentation will be made publicly available. In Year 2 we will invite more higher education institutions to implement pedagogical chatbots as a service for their students with a self-service solutions. We will setup open, digital learning communities (cMOOCs), build a knowledge sharing culture among educators, and motivate the implementation of pedagogical chatbots improving the quality of education in Europe. iii) Project goalsDocument best practises for the use of chatbots in higher education.Proven up to 50 % lower dropout rates.Allow 5.000 HE educators participating in an open knowledge sharing community (cMOOC) with a potential reach of 500.000 students.iv) VisionCreate a sharing culture among educators in higher education leading to best practices implementation of pedagogical chatbots and improving quality of higher education in Europe. v) ImpactReduce dropout rates and improved cost effectiveness, enabling higher education institutions to enroll more student with the same or lower budget.
PROJECT'S MAIN OBJECTIVES:-Increased student engagement: We focus on engagement between students and educators facilitated by chatbots-Improved feedback loops: We focus on increasing the frequency and accuracy of feedback between educators and students-Improved student success: Project pilots are designed with the overall goal of decreasing dropout rates by using chatbots-Knowledge sharing: Join a learning community of educators, to learn about chatbots and share your practical experiences.
The issue of increasing educational attainment is gaining importance in the national and international debates on higher education. The student-educator ratio in Higher-Education is high, causing:- Educators can’t promote digital communication like asynchronous communication with students or tasks like formative assessment in their teaching, and - students don’t get personalised feedback to increase their learning nor have an effective way to get connected to others with similar study goals.
<< Background >> The issue of increasing educational attainment is gaining importance in the national and international debates on higher education. The student-educator ratio in Higher-Education is high, causing:- Educators can’t promote digital communication like asynchronous communication with students or tasks like formative assessment in their teaching, and - students don’t get personalised feedback to increase their learning nor have an effective way to get connected to others with similar study goals. << Objectives >> PROJECT'S MAIN OBJECTIVES:-Increased student engagement: We focus on engagement between students and educators facilitated by chatbots-Improved feedback loops: We focus on increasing the frequency and accuracy of feedback between educators and students-Improved student success: Project pilots are designed with the overall goal of decreasing dropout rates by using chatbots-Knowledge sharing: Join a learning community of educators, to learn about chatbots and share your practical experiences. << Implementation >> EDUBOTS has the goal of improving educational attainment in EU higher education. We do that by exploring best practice use of chatbots and creating a learning community of Educators in EU. EDUBOTS has contributed to massive collaboration among educators across courses, institutions and countries; with open, digital knowledge sharing communities, aiming to stimulate entrepreneurial skills of their users. We have also encouraged student-to-student collaboration by integrating the chatbots. << Results >> -cMOOC ‘Introduction to Chatbots, for Educators’: This online course and community of practice is designed for Educators in Higher Education and created to co-explore the best practice use of chatbots. It is a multicultural community with members from all over Europe.-Differ chat, which has been developed in order to connect students in universities, especially newcomers-Pilot rounds-Hubert-Edubots blog-Research outputs from project partners-Chatbot Conferences-Webinars-Research papers.