A Step Towards Adaptive #OnlineLearning: Exploring the Role of #GPT as Virtual #TeachingAssistants in #OnlineEducation
"Human TAs are bound by time constraints <<often overloaded with multiple responsibilities, less well compensated>> and are often available only during limited working hours.. can result in a wait time for students seeking answers to their coursework questions. This paper introduces a novel approach to address this need by developing a Virtual Teaching Assistant (#TA) that leverages #OpenAI’s text embeddings to format and search for data and GPT to adapt the style and content of its responses... Our virtual TA, JeepyTA, offers round-the-clock assistance to students, much more rapidly addressing their academic queries. Although still limited in what it can respond to, #JeepyTA provides students with responses to their logistic, conceptual, and programming questions, tailored to specific courses.
In this paper, we outline the development process, discuss the results, and outline our future plans for a more generalized and versatile #VirtualTA catering to a broader range of courses and their differing #learningsupport needs..."
#HumanCapacity #StudentMotivation #Development #SRL #SelfRegulatedLearning #DigitalLearning #EducationPolicy #LearningNeeds #Personalisation #SelfEfficacy #AIed
Paper: https://lnkd.in/eWDQSHtz
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