Izv. prof. dr. sc. Goran Hajdin
Head of Department/Associate Professor
Department:
Department of Foreign Languages and General Educational Disciplines - Head of Department
Department of Information Systems Development - Associate member
goran.hajdin@foi.unizg.hr
+385 42 390860
Best practices of pedagogical chatbots in higher education
| Role | Member |
|---|---|
| Acronym | EDUBOTS |
| Summary | i) Challenge The 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 ofnowledge in how to implement and train the chatbots for specific scenarios in higher education. ii) Solution We 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 willsetup open, digital learning communities (cMOOCs), build a knowledge sharing culture among educators, and motivate the implementation of pedagogical hatbots improving the quality of education in Europe. Example HUBERT (made by HUB): Students giving feedback to chatbot Example DIFFER (made by ETF): Chatbot connecting students Both bots will be available from a single chat app designed for higher education. iii) Project goals 1. Document best practises for the use of chatbots in higher education. 2. Proven up to 50 % lower dropout rates. 3. Allow 5.000 HE educators participating in an open knowledge sharing community (cMOOC) with a potential reach of 500.000 students. iv) Vision Create 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) Impact Reduce dropout rates and improved cost effectiveness, enabling higher education institutions to enroll more student with the same or lower budget. |
| Line of financing |
Erasmus+ |
| Duration | 01.11.2019. - 31.01.2022. |
| Budget amount | 699.367,00 EUR |
| Web page | https://www.edubots.eu/ |