🔎 Proquest Adds AI Features
Proquest announces new AI Research Assistant in Beta for some university partnerships. The company claims that the tools will allow “natural language inquiries” to refine searches, although there is no publicly available demo or use-case yet for the tool.
Learn More: ProQuest, Part of Clarivate, Launches AI-Powered Research Assistant
💬 Microsoft Offers Copilot Training Series
Microsoft is offering a bi-monthly Teams meeting that includes a Q&A, direct training, and discussions about using Copilot for educators.
Learn More: Register for Club Copilot
📝 Build Inclusive Rooms for AI Policy in Higher Ed
AI policy development in universities can begin with inclusive rooms that emphasize intersectionality, belonging, engagement, and ongoing participation. Task groups may suffer from the representation fallacy, so large institutions could consider creating norms around entering, leading, and inviting campus members into “the room” when policy is being discussed.
Learn More: In the Room Where It Happens: Generative AI Policy Creation in Higher Education