"Future Learning: Designing Innovative Learning & Teaching for a World of Social Generative AI"

“Future Learning: Designing Innovative Learning and Teaching for a World of Social Generative AI”
MIKE SHARPLES, Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University UK
ABSTRACT: The growth of Generative Artificial Intelligence is following a similar path to the World Wide Web: research, breakthrough, integration into workplace tools, development of apps. For the Web, the next major development was social media and services. I suggest we will soon see the emergence of “social generative AI” - AI systems interacting with humans and with other AI tools in complex social networks. Social Generative AI will have profound implications. In education it will offer new roles for AI as a conversational partner and collaborator; it will break down language barriers and connect people across cultures. However, it may also erode trust in information and create networks of interacting machines beyond human control. My talk will cover pedagogy-informed design at scale. I will propose we design future education that is not only effective and ethical but also caring and founded on good pedagogy.
BIO: Mike Sharples PhD, SMIEEE is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. He gained a PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh on Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing. His expertise involves human-centred design and evaluation of new technologies and environments for learning. He provides consultancy for institutions worldwide including UNESCO, UNICEF, universities and companies. As Academic Lead for FutureLearn.com he led pedagogy-informed design of the open learning platform. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. He is author of over 300 published papers in the areas of educational technology, learning sciences, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His recent books are Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn and Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers both published by Routledge, and An Introduction to Narrative Generators, published by Oxford University Press.