While ChatGPT has caused upheaval from K-12, Universities, and Professional schools: OpenAI’s large-language-model driven Whisper speech-to-text engine is a remarkable piece of software with tremendous potential to benefit the University. Come see how we’re putting it to work at CITL!

Two critically important interoperability standards for Ed Tech are LTI and Caliper. LTI is a standard that since 2012 has allowed 3rd party applications to integrate with Learning Management Systems to share identity information and grade book access. Caliper is a learning activity reporting standard that allows the aggregation of activities across applications used in […]

Modern web browsers are powerful pieces of software: websockets, webRTC, new HTML5 capabilities are largely going under-exploited. Combined with a client-side web application framework, there’s potential for delivering highly interactive web experiences supported by minimalist backends. Let’s demonstrate some new browser capabilities while exploring the advantages of moving work from server to client.

Let’s imagine the world of the near future where video accessibility is taken for granted and where the metadata required to accommodate users with sensory impairments is exploited to benefit non-target populations; then work backwards to where we are today, building that future.