In a session at the Forum on Education Abroad Conference in Boston, MA, our Academic Director, Marketa Lepicovsky, shared her research on using AI to create education abroad prediction models and assigning the top word categories that best predict faculty-led program success.
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We’re excited to share that our Executive Director, Uli Leibrecht, and our Academic Director, Dr. Marketa Lepicovsky, will be attending The Forum on Education Abroad’s 20th Annual Conference.
Join us in Boston from March 20-22, 2024
- Meet with us at Table 31 in the exhibit area.
- Attend a session – Dr. Lepicovsky will be presenting and co-presenting during two sessions during the conference.
Look into a crystal ball: AI predicts faculty-led program success
Thursday, March 21 from 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Faculty leader know-how and experience are valuable resources, which facilitate effective faculty-led program development and recruiting. Today, artificial intelligence enables practitioners to obtain insights on faculty readiness to serve as program leaders. In this study, AI identifies patterns and sentiment in human text that predict whether programs run or are cancelled. Administrators may use this data to identify gaps in faculty leader support, offer intervention, and reduce cancellations.
Presenting:
Marketa Lepicovsky, Ph.D., Academic Director, CEPA
Absolutely Incredible? Using AI tools to evaluate student learning abroad
Friday, March 22 from 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Impactful learning depends on engagement, reflection, and insight, latent factors that are difficult to measure without survey instruments. Artificial intelligence now enables insights into phenomena related to transformational learning. Using a text analysis method to examine qualitative student reflections reveals patterns and trends that predict quantitative survey instrument responses, suggesting AI can serve as an easy and unobtrusive means to monitor student learning.
Presenting:
Marketa Lepicovsky, Ph.D., Academic Director, CEPA
Heidi Barends, Ph.D., Academic Director, EDU Africa
CEPA is committed to positively impacting climate and social sustainability and strives to be a leader in environmental sustainability within international education.
As part of this commitment, we offset the carbon footprint of our company’s operations and the footprint created on-site by our study abroad programs in Europe. Additionally, we go the extra mile by funding environmental projects that plant native trees for each program participant.
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