A new tool developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is helping colleges simplify transfer credit evaluation, potentially reducing labor and expediting decisions. About 120 college campuses across the U.S. are piloting a new artificial intelligence tool designed to make transfer course equivalencies clearer and more standardized. Credit transfer is a point of friction for students moving between institutions and for the administrators that manage it, according to Daniel Knox, director of the Center for Data & Analytics at the National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH), a partner organization in the CourseWise pilot. Knox, who previously served as assistant provost at the State University of New York (SUNY), said evaluation practices vary from campus to campus and aren’t always systematically tracked.
