One of the best collections of education-related AI tools, the Ithaka S+R Generative AI Product Tracker has been upgraded from Google Sheets to Airtable, according to a post on the Ithaka blog. They’ve also taken the opportunity to tweak which tools they’re covering:
We have also refined the scope of the tracker. While our tracker previously sought to include all products that might reasonably be used by instructors, researchers, and students at the postsecondary level, the current version focuses on products that are marketed specifically towards these same users for teaching, learning, and research activities. We are no longer including general purpose AI products (e.g., ChatGPT, image or code generation products for various contexts, etc.) with use cases that can extend significantly beyond higher education in the tracker.
Sadly, one of the features missing from the original tool is not addressed by moving to Airtable. There’s still no way to receive updates when anything changes on the site 🙁 Airtable doesn’t offer an RSS feed, and the one tool they appear to have partnered with that does, miniExtensions, doesn’t offer a free tier. USD$50/month is too much for me to eat! I spent a LOT of time yesterday with ChatGPT trying to create a workaround, but so far, the best option, Visualping, only offers an email option. That’s fine, and is what I’ll use for now, but it sure would be nice to have that feed, so I’m still poking around.
The other update I’m happy to see is how easy it now is to suggest a change to a particular product (or an entirely new tool). I submitted a tweak yesterday, and it’s already been added.
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