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“The fundamental premise of this is, if you throw a whole bunch of data away, you’re not going to get quality outputs on the other end, whether that’s a graphic showing the progression of student success and graduation rates for your school or the response to a question about financial aid through a chatbot,” Andriola says.
APIs can even execute logic — for example, answering the question “is this student eligible to enroll next year?”— letting one application be the source of truth and reducing maintenance headaches and inconsistencies.
“There’s just a lot of sub-baccalaureate and sub-associate degree credentials out there” of different lengths and costs, called by a variety of names and offered by different kinds of providers, making it “hard to decipher any sort of outcomes or similarities,” she said.
While the university’s supercomputing center allows in-house AI development, private sector companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are integrating GenAI and other learning automation functionality into their software platforms.
Leaders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have also expanded campus ID card uses to include digital access to buildings, dining, class check-ins, event attendance, and payments for goods and services, among others.