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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. Here it is: Our 2018 eLearning predictions set in terms of Gartner’s hype cycle. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. Innovation Trigger.

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AI in Action: Deploying Responsible, Effective, and Trustworthy AI

sgEngage

Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s and it has gone through periods of hype (“AI summers”) and periods with reduced interest (“AI winters”). The recent hype is driven in part by how accessible AI has become: You no longer need to be a data scientist to use AI. AI is another tool in your toolbox.

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Harnessing generative AI for good

Candid

Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

The hype is problematic, but the revolution is real. But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  of ChatGPT last December. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” Conclusion Social change in the real world is difficult, and magic bullets are few and far between. It’s on the last one that Toyama makes his biggest error.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists?

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

The Big Changes the Cloud Brings Changes Culture. Increases Pace and Decreases Cost of Change. Cloud platforms implement "clicks not code" customization, allowing relatively unskilled users to change existing workflows and adopt new ones on the fly. Reliance on third party(ies). Just do it.

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