The November installment of OCUL’s Beyond the Algorithm Reading Club explores educational labour and AI. Read the month’s curated article, watch a conversation with expert Dr. Michael Mindzak, and sign up for the community discussion and join library colleagues to reflect on how AI may reshape the labour of education while leaving many fundamentally human dimensions of educational work intact.
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As part of the Learning Together: Reflections on the Academy and Reconciliation speaker series, this upcoming event on November 18 will highlight the role libraries can play as places of connection, cultural recognition, knowledge sharing, and reconciliation on campus.
The latest post in our AI Tools for Academic Libraries blog series highlights how AI tools can support the generation of alt text for digitized material and where these tools can fit into a centralized workflow. Using OCUL's Accessible Content ePortal Remediation project as its starting point, the article provides an overview of three popular AI models for the varying quality of their AI-generated alt text.
This update from the OCUL AI and Machine Learning Initiative highlights Phase 1 testing completed in the Enhancing Virtual Reference project, the extension of the popular AI Tools for Academic Libraries blog series, and how the initiative is helping elevate the profile of libraries as key partners in supporting responsible AI-enabled teaching and research.