EdTech Insight – The evolution of customer care: AI and the Gen Z effect

by EdTechMate | Jul 8, 2024 | McKinsey, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points In this rapidly evolving era, Gen Z’s entry into the market as consumers and workforce members heralds a shift in customer service demands. Generative AI (gen AI) has emerged as a transformative agent in customer care within...

EdTech Insight – Survive your PhD 2nd year slump | 5 *super simple* actions!

by EdTechMate | Jul 7, 2024 | youtube

Executive Summary and Main PointsIn addressing the phenomenon known as the “second year slump” among PhD students, key strategies for overcoming this academic hurdle are outlined. Suffering from a decrease in novelty and increased pressure to produce...

EdTech Insight – Creating a SLURM Cluster for Scheduling NVIDIA MIG-Based GPU Accelerated workloads

by EdTechMate | Jul 7, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The NVIDIA A100, A30, and H100 Tensor Core GPUs have introduced Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), a feature that enables a single GPU to be partitioned into multiple instances. This maximizes GPU utilization and boosts user productivity by...

EdTech Insight – Connect to a Linux VM using Bastion and Key Vault without a private key file

by EdTechMate | Jul 6, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points In the realm of global higher education and e-learning technologies, the adoption of secure network access in enterprise environments is paramount. Azure Bastion, a service providing secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to virtual...

EdTech Insight – Aidan Gomez helped invent the transformer at Google. At Cohere, he’s now taking AI to businesses

by EdTechMate | Jul 6, 2024 | CNBC, News & Insights

“`html Executive Summary and Main Points In a significant advancement for the generative artificial intelligence (AI) sector, Aidan Gomez, who was instrumental in conceptualizing the transformer model through his research at Google Brain, has significantly...

EdTech Insight – Lesson Learned #506:Why Custom DNS Returns Public IP Instead of Private IP Azure Private Endpoints

by EdTechMate | Jul 6, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The crux of the innovations surrounds the advancements in networking infrastructure, focusing primarily on Azure Private Endpoints’ DNS configurations for securely managing database connections. The key trends are centered...

EdTech Insight – Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Program Interview Series Episode 3

by EdTechMate | Jul 6, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Program offers a significant opportunity for students to engage in skill development, community building, and hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies in global higher education settings....

EdTech Insight – Tesla shares wipe out loss for the year with 27% rally this week

by EdTechMate | Jul 5, 2024 | CNBC, News & Insights

“`html Executive Summary and Main Points The key innovation in the spotlight is Tesla’s remarkable rebound, with its stock price recovering to erase its losses for the year, culminating in a 27% weekly gain. This turnaround has been primarily fueled by an...

EdTech Insight – Importing a Database into VS Code

by EdTechMate | Jul 5, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The migration of SQL databases to a local development environment is becoming streamlined through innovative technologies that bypass the need for extensive licensing, such as Visual Studio. This process, which extends the potential...

EdTech Insight – Why is a PhD a Doctor of *Philosophy*? The little-known reason! #shorts

by EdTechMate | Jul 5, 2024 | youtube

Executive Summary and Main PointsIn clarifying the etymology of ‘PhD’, or Doctor of Philosophy, we uncover a pivotal concept resonating with contemporary trends in global higher education: the enduring pursuit of wisdom—a principle that aligns with the...