A New Frontier
The next generation of bachelor's degrees leverages a decade of digital innovations accelerated in a post-pandemic world.
This week begins my journey into a fully online Bachelor's degree program. Even though I have taken many online classes before, this feels different. We learned in the lecture that this is not supposed to be a difficult class, but we as students must stay on top of everything.
It is crucial I find the balance between personal and academic life. I want to succeed, and to do so I must regularly log into Canvas, maintain good communications with the Professor, and most importantly make sure everything is synced with and added to my calendar. Group work seems to be an integral part of this course also and I must keep my notifications on, communicate with my group, and make sure I carry my responsibilities to help the group succeed.
The rise of ChatGPT and other LLMs have carved a new frontier in education amongst disrupting every other industry. There is so much to learn, and so much to adapt to. Learning won't be obsolete, as does critical thinking and writing. We learned about the prompts OpenAI published specifically for education, and many of my classmates seemed to appreciate things such as study guide planning and preliminary grading. I look forwards to continuing to improve in the class and keep up with the rapid pace.