Dear Colleagues,
I am at the OLC Accelerate Conference in Orlando, Florida and will be on a panel today entitled,
On the panel with me are: Patsy Moskal (University of Central Florida), Chuck Dziuban (University of Central Florida), Paige McDonald (George Washington U.) , and Kelvin Thompson (Louisville U.). Below is the abstract of the presentation.
We will be presenting at 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM in the Americas Seminar Room.
I hope to see you there.
Tony
Abstract
This panel brings together leading scholars to explore the transformative potential of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in digital learning environments. Drawing from recent scholars (Picciano & Moskal, in press), our distinguished panel will examine both the opportunities and challenges that GenAI presents to contemporary education.
The Current AI Educational Landscape
Artificial intelligence burst onto the public educational scene in late 2022 with the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI, though AI’s educational roots extend back to the 1950s. As Suleyman (2023), co-founder of DeepMind, defines it, AI represents the science of teaching machines to learn humanlike capabilities. Today’s generative AI platforms—called generative because they create information in text, image, video, and audio formats based on user prompts—represent deep learning models capable of collecting vast quantities of data from across the Internet.
Faculty members, administrators, and policymakers across educational institutions are actively exploring generative AI’s potential as a pedagogically appropriate, administratively sound, and beneficial vehicle for educational advancement. While scholarship on generative AI is rapidly developing, significant research, study, and knowledge-seeking remain to be accomplished. We stand at the nascent stage of AI evolution, which will dominate how we live, work, and educate in the coming decades.
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