Podcast: How AI Can Smooth College Credit Transfer

"Upward transfer is viewed as a mechanism to provide college students with an accessible and affordable on-ramp to higher education through two-year colleges, but breakdowns in the credit-transfer process can hinder a student's progress toward their degree. A recent survey by Sova and the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board found the average college student loses credits transferring between institutions and has to repeat courses they've already completed. Some students stop out of higher education altogether because transfer is too challenging."

"CourseWise is a new tool that seeks to mitigate some of these challenges by deploying AI to identify and predict transfer equivalencies using existing articulation agreements between institutions. So far, the tool, part of the AI Transfer and Articulation Infrastructure Network, has been adopted at over 120 colleges and universities, helping to provide a centralized database for credit-transfer processes and automate course matching."

"A: As soon as a chat interface to AI became popularized, feasible, plausible and useful, it opened up the space to a lot of people, including those who don't necessarily have a computer science background. So in a way, it's great. You get a lot more accessibility to this kind of application and work. But there have also been pre"

Upward transfer through two-year colleges offers an accessible and affordable pathway into higher education, but frequent breakdowns in credit transfer hinder degree progress. A Sova and Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board survey found that the average student loses credits when transferring and often must repeat courses already completed, and some students stop out because transfer is too difficult. CourseWise applies AI to existing articulation agreements to identify and predict transfer equivalencies, centralize credit-transfer data, and automate course matching. CourseWise operates within the AI Transfer and Articulation Infrastructure Network and has been adopted by over 120 colleges and universities.

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