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
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
Uli Leibrecht, Executive Director, is pleased to welcome Marketa Lepicovsky, Ph.D. as Academic Director to the CEPA team in Germany, effective March 1, 2022.
In this new management position, Marketa will provide superb leadership while introducing fresh ideas and perspectives across the entire CEPA portfolio of programs, services, and initiatives.
By overseeing and upholding CEPA’s commitment to excellence, she will foster ongoing relationships with study abroad staff, faculty, and administrators at partner institutions to continually ensure the academic quality of faculty-led, summer, and semester study abroad programs.
Marketa joins the team with more than 16 years of experience in international and higher education. Prior to joining CEPA, she managed international education and study abroad programs in both Germany and in the Czech Republic, including student services and teaching.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Art Education from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Ohio State University. Most recently, she had the unique opportunity to live in Taiwan where she obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
We are excited to welcome her into this vital role at CEPA and are confident that her exceptional experience and strengths will further advance the excellence of our team and organization.
Sincerely,
Uli Leibrecht
Executive Director
CEPA GmbH and CEPA Foundation
CEPA is going to attend the NAFSA Annual Conference from May 26-31, 2019 in Washington, DC. Don’t miss the great opportunity to meet with us in person!
We welcome your meeting request to learn more about your study abroad initiatives and goals for 2019/2020 and beyond.
CEPA is your trusted partner in Europe for undergraduate and graduate level faculty-led programs, semester and summer abroad programs as well as service learning programs in Guatemala.
We are excited to be exhibiting with our wonderful partners from the Global Learning Collective. The resources and power of this consortium enables us to expand the destinations for high-quality faculty-led programs to nearly every area of the world, including Africa, Asia, and South America. Get to know us better and visit our booth #1701!
This year, CEPA will attend the Forum’s 15th Annual Conference in Denver as a member of the Global Learning Collective.
The Global Learning Collective represents a collaboration of five independent organizations that share similar values and the same commitment for meaningful international education:
We are excited to share more information with you about it.
Date: March 27-29, 2019
Location: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
If you haven’t scheduled an appointment, yet, make sure to stop by and visit us in the Exhibition Hall: TABLE #32
Safe travels and I’m looking forward to seeing you in Denver,
We are excited to announce that Uli Leibrecht, Founder and Director of CEPA, will be one of the panelists at the “Re-Imagine: Innovations in Global Education” Conference.
The conference is hosted by Asia Institute in conjunction with NAFSA in Philadelphia on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. It will highlight key innovations in the global education field, by bringing together provosts, deans, directors, faculty leaders, and advisors.
Panel: Innovations in Study Abroad
This panel will focus on innovations in the study abroad field. Panelists will share their best practices for innovative experiential programming, with a focus on results-based outcomes.
Panelists:
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Time: 12:30pm – 6:00pm
Location: American Institute of Architects – Center for Architecture and Design
Address: 1218 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (across from the Philadelphia Convention Center)
For more information, please visit the Asia Institute website.
Carbon emissions (CO2e) resulting from CEPA’s activities during the period from January to December 2021 have been calculated at 42 tons. CEPA’s carbon footprint has been offset by planting native trees at the Osa Conservation Area in Costa Rica, one of the most biologically intense places on earth.
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