{"id":96434,"date":"2024-10-11T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=96434"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T18:39:30","slug":"in-the-news-predicting-pandemic-impacts-ticketmasters-bad-blood-and-ai-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/10\/in-the-news-predicting-pandemic-impacts-ticketmasters-bad-blood-and-ai-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: Predicting pandemic impacts, Ticketmaster\u2019s \u2018Bad Blood\u2019 and AI in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed an algorithm for tracking COVID-19 cases, Ticketmaster&#8217;s latest scandal, artificial intelligence (AI) use in post-secondary education, how working memory impacts learning and Canada&#8217;s evolving cannabis market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada home to health research successes, but needs culture shift: expert: <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Pouria Ramazi was featured in a Canadian Press story about his research to develop an algorithm that can predict COVID-19 cases and deaths up to 10 weeks in advance. The story also ran in publications such as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/canada-home-to-health-research-successes-but-needs-culture-shift-expert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ticketmaster changes Taylor Swift ticket transfer rules amid reported ticket thefts: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Information Systems Francine Vachon spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/ticketmaster-taylor-swift-1.7346088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/MediaView\/?c3RhdGlvbj0xNDk0MCZtb2RzaGFyaW5nZW5hYmxlPXRydWUmY3VzdG9tZXJpZGVudGlmaWVyPTU1NjE5JlN0YXJ0RGF0ZVRpbWU9MTAlMmYwOSUyZjIwMjQrMDUlM2E1MCUzYTIxJkVuZERhdGVUaW1lPTEwJTJmMDklMmYyMDI0KzA2JTNhMDAlM2EyMSYmbW9kZWRpdG9yZW5hYmxlPWZhbHNlJnBhcnRuZXJpZD0xNjA4NyYmJmV4cGlyYXRpb249MTElMmYwOCUyZjIwMjQrMDUlM2E1MCUzYTIxLjA0MCZpbnN0YW50UGxheT1UcnVlJnNpZ25hdHVyZT01NmZhNTJjMTZmMTg0ZTc3MGIzYmY4ZDYwN2IyNzE1Yw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC Radio<\/a> about Ticketmaster\u2019s new operating procedures after Taylor Swift tickets were incorrectly transferred away from fan accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>EdTech, AI and platform capitalism in the classroom<\/strong>: Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Rahul Kumar spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/rabble.ca\/podcast\/edtech-ai-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rabble.ca<\/a> about the rise of education technology and AI and their impact in college and university classrooms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working memory: education\u2019s unfinished revolution: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Psychology Karen Campbell spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/magazine\/teaching-learning\/general\/what-is-working-memory-educations-unfinished-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TES Magazine<\/a> about the role of working memory in learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changes to medical cannabis legislation post-legalization:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/962-niagara-in-the-morning-wit-170201832\/episode\/michael-armstrong-associate-professor-of-224987503\/\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about the impacts on medical cannabis use since recreational cannabis use was legalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed an algorithm for tracking COVID-19 cases, Ticketmaster&#8217;s latest scandal, artificial intelligence (AI) use in post-secondary education, how working memory impacts learning and Canada&#8217;s evolving cannabis market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":96448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,40,7,6,41,38],"tags":[6805,12453,2156,13917,546,13700,594,4703,4395,10202,12437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96434"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96459,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96434\/revisions\/96459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}