The Impact of Custom Bots: Revolutionizing Role Play. Bots Preparing Professors. Personalized Learning Unleashed.
The AI Collaborative: Higher Ed Newsletter | Issue 6
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“The future of education lies not just in using AI, but in teaching students to become AI creators themselves. This is how we prepare them for a world where human-AI collaboration is the norm."
— Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy
This Week In Bullets
Custom Bots Take the Stage
Roleplaying Application for Entrepreneurship Courses
AI Agents in the Classroom
The Bot Awards Have Commenced
Dive Deeper: Hear the AI Analysis
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Education’s Top Bot Builders Take the Stage
Jose Bowen, Sarah Gibson, Charlena Miller, Drew Martin, and even a fourth-grade AI wiz are showing off their Custom Bots! Check out some of our favorites below, or visit the Custom Bot Showcase to see, try, and submit your very own bot for the big stage.
Presidential Power Bot - created by José Antonio Bowen | Author of Teaching with AI
Course Companion Bot - created by Sarah Gibson | Lipscomb University
Service Quality Gaps - created by Drew Martin | University of South Carolina
Gear - created by Emily Gibson | AI and the Kid Podcast
Entrepreneurship Role Play to Reshape Student Learning
Doan Winkel, Chair of John Carroll University's Entrepreneurship Center, shares how he transformed traditional role-playing exercises using custom bots. Frustrated with ineffective student interview practices, he created an AI-powered solution that simulates realistic customer interactions. His custom bot provides immediate feedback and allows students to practice with authentic personas - something impossible with traditional peer-to-peer role-play.
Using his instructions, we built this bot to help students manage their budgets.
Give it a try > Student Budget Management Tool
AI Agents and the Future of Education
The Bot Awards Have Commenced
Our upcoming Bot Awards winner will be the first to win BoodleBox gear. Entering is easy, just submit your custom bot below.
Professors Prepare with Bots on Board
Three incredible educators reveals how they are revolutionizing course preparation with the power of bot building and practical AI strategies. See real examples of transformed teaching workflows and impactful results while snagging a few takeaways to bring with you.
Missed the Collaborative AI Accelerator Series? View the series here
Behind the Curtain
Hi, I’m France, the Co-founder and CEO at BoodleBox. We’re on a mission to partner with faculty, staff, and students to build the best platform in the world for collaborative, responsible AI in the classroom and for classwork.
This newsletter exists to inform and connect those in higher education interested in helping faculty and students responsibly collaborate with GenAI. Come learn more about BoodleBox for Education, and if you’re already onboard, bring a colleague - we’d really appreciate it.
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