higher education Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/higher-education/ Reinventing education for a diverse, complex world. Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:59:39 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 /edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2020/07/favicon.png higher education Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/higher-education/ 32 32 In the media: Education Professor Discusses Higher Education's Grapple with Generative AI /edu/2024/07/22/in-the-media-education-professor-discusses-higher-educations-grapple-with-generative-ai/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:55:06 +0000 /edu/?p=40237 Ron Owston, Professor Emeritus at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education, discusses the integration of individual AI tutors for social learning in Bryan鈥檚 Substack article, citing his insights from EDUCAUSE Review. Owston emphasizes the importance of creating collaborative learning environments by leveraging AI tutors among students, with AITutorPro highlighted as a practical example. He challenges the […]

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Ron Owston, Professor Emeritus at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education, discusses the integration of individual AI tutors for social learning in Bryan鈥檚 Substack article, citing his insights from EDUCAUSE Review. Owston emphasizes the importance of creating collaborative learning environments by leveraging AI tutors among students, with AITutorPro highlighted as a practical example. He challenges the traditional role of AI tutors solely as personal learning tools, advocating instead for the incorporation of features that promote social learning dynamics.

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]]> The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century /edu/events/the-new-global-universities-reinventing-education-in-the-21st-century/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:22:12 +0000 /edu/?post_type=mec-events&p=38996 This talk chronicles the origins, launch, and impact of 8 innovative colleges/universities in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and North America.

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This talk chronicles the origins, launch, and impact of 8 innovative colleges/universities in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and North America, describing the combination of intellectual courage, entrepreneurial audacity, and adaptive leadership needed to invent educational institutions today. Their experiences offer lessons for future founders of new universities鈥揳nd for those who want to renew and rejuvenate existing ones.

Join participants:

Speaker:
Noah Pickus - Associate Provost & Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation (Duke Kunshan University)

Discussant:
Lisa Philipps - Provost & Vice-President Academic, 91亚色

Organizer & Chair:
Qiang Zha - Associate Professor, Faculty of Education (91亚色); Chair | Interim Director, 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (91亚色)

 

 

The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century event flyer with full details including date, time, location of event with featured guest speakers Lisa Philipps, Noah Pickus and Qiang Zha

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]]> ChatGPT: One Year Later....A Roundtable Discussion /edu/events/chatgpt-one-year-later-a-roundtable-discussion/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:11:57 +0000 /edu/?post_type=mec-events&p=38080 Convening on Nov 30, the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT鈥檚 launch, this roundtable brings together a diverse group of scholars to reflect on the promises and perils of generative AI in the context of higher education. Turning their eyes to the future, each of our panelists will bring forward a topic or concern they see as […]

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]]> Convening on Nov 30, the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT鈥檚 launch, this roundtable brings together a diverse group of scholars to reflect on the promises and perils of generative AI in the context of higher education. Turning their eyes to the future, each of our panelists will bring forward a topic or concern they see as being underexplored, laying the groundwork for future conversations and collaborations as we continue to make our way in this new educational landscape.

headshots of: Dr. sava saheli singh (Assistant Professor of Digital Futures in Education), Dr. Kelly Bergstrom (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Media Studies), Ryan Collis (Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Program in Education); image of robot sitting in front of a birthday cake with candles

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