Bart Rienties and I from IET, joined by Mychelle Pride (Academic Director PVC-Student) and Paul Prinsloo (Unisa), recently presented our latest thinking about AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning during the European Open and Digital Learning Week (EODLW) 2024. Our session was moderated by Sandra Kucina Softic, who is the Vice President of Open Professional Collaboration and an EDEN board member.
In my presentation, I focused on the opportunities and challenges of using generative AI in the context of teaching and course content production. Based on several pieces of research we recently conducted, I provided a glimpse of the future of education and how generative AI might change teaching practice.
The event was kick-started by Sandra Kucina Softic, followed by Bart Rienties presenting his work on ‘Using Generative AI to support more engaging learning experiences’. Bart’s work focused on the student perspective and how students perceive generative AI as a learning support. In my presentation ‘Future of Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities of Generative AI for Teaching’, I focused on teacher support with AI, which is very timely as teachers are starting to use generative AI at scale to support their teaching tasks. Mychelle looked at the institutional approach of generative AI for teaching and learning in her presentation ‘The Future of Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Teaching: An Institutional Approach’. And, last but not least, Paul Prinsloo talked about ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Towards a Careful Use of AI and GenAI’ and asked important questions about the risks, what we win, who wins, and under what circumstances.
The event brought together a great lineup of international researchers, and I am very thankful to EDEN for inviting me to present at this prestigious event.
Our session drew a large audience, with around 150 people attending the session from all over the world.
You can watch the whole session here https://youtu.be/nxr6GzLItCQ?feature=shared and here is a direct link to my presentation: https://youtu.be/nxr6GzLItCQ?feature=shared&t=1089
You can find more information about the event and the other events in this series here: https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-open-and-digital-learning-week-eodlw-2024-2/
Further reading:
Ullmann, T.D., Edwards, C., Bektik, D., Herodotou, C. and Whitelock, D. (2024) ‘Towards Generative AI for Course Content Production: Expert Reflections’, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 26(s1), pp. 20–34. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2478/eurodl-2024-0013.
Ullmann, T.D., Bektik, D., Edwards, C., Herodotou, C. and Whitelock, D. (2024) ‘Teaching with Generative AI: moving forward with content creation’, in Learning in the Age of AI: Towards Imaginative Futures. Annual Conference on European Distance and E-Learning Network, EDEN 2024, Graz, Austria. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/uproc.157.
Bektik, D., Ullmann, T.D., Edwards, C., Herodotou, C. and Whitelock, D. (2024) ‘AI-Powered Curricula: Unpacking the Potential and Progress of Generative Technologies in Education’, in. Annual Conference on European Distance and E-Learning Network, EDEN 2024, Graz, Austria. Available at: https://oro.open.ac.uk/98012/.
Rienties, B., Domingue, J., Duttaroy, S., Herodotou, C., Tessarolo, F. and Whitelock, D. (2024) ‘What distance learning students want from an AI Digital Assistant’, Distance Education [Preprint]. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2024.2338717
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