Faculty explores AI, IOT and Cloud through TIO’s Teaching and Learning Technology Innovation Grants

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In the last few years, substantial transformations in higher education have opened extraordinary new opportunities to innovate instruction and expand educational opportunities. To ensure that Texas State continues to deliver quality education in this period of dynamic innovation and experimentation, the Technology Innovation Office (TIO), has set aside funding for faculty members to submit innovative…

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TIO team completes assessment of AI-driven transcription

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It has been a long-standing goal for the Division of Information Technology to allow Texas State University to provide an inexpensive method for captions and transcript generation for video and audio files used to support multiple activities across the institution. These activities include marketing, archive videos, and, most importantly, instructional media. Captions and transcripts help…

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Attendance systems stakeholder ideation session

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On Feb. 14, 2019, staff in the Technology Innovation Office met with stakeholders for an initial brainstorming session around attendance taking at Texas State. Our goal was to generate ideas and gather feedback around the following problem statement. The university needs a unified, low cost, accurate and secure system to gather classroom attendance and make…

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Collaboration drives innovation

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Mediaflo, the Division of Information Technology’s supported Media Management System, runs on the Ensemble Video Platform. Since the launch of Mediaflo, there have been ongoing concerns about video quality and audio/video playback. In addition, Mediaflo has seen its encoding engine discontinued by vendors twice in the last 3 years. Both of those encoding engines [Rhozet…

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