Abstract

Recent technological innovations, such as emerging technologies and generative AI, are not only changing the landscape of education but also disrupting the way of instruction. These changes and disruptions bring both excitement and concern. They have the potential to foster deeply engaged learning experiences by providing the affordances that were not possible before and provide means for continuously monitoring, assessing, and guiding students in their learning process to ensure they receive tailored support. These same advances can also create biased content, spread false information, share private information by mistake, cause job loss, and raise questions about human dependency and accountability. This keynote speech will provide glimpse of future of education and discuss how to exploit these emerging technologies before they exploit us. We shall collectively create a vision for the future of education where, instead of trying to stop the progress due to the various concerns, effective planning and rules can reduce those risks and take advantage of the opportunities such technologies bring to transform the current education, with constraints and safeguards in place to make learning process safe and reliable.

Brief biography

Dr. Kinshuk is the Dean of the College of Information and Full Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. His work has been dedicated to advancing research on innovative paradigms, architectures and implementations of online and distance learning systems for individualized and adaptive learning in increasingly global environments. With more than 610 research publications in refereed journals, international refereed conferences and book chapters, he is frequently invited as keynote or principal speaker in international conferences and as visiting professor around the world. He has a successful record of procuring external funding over 10 million US dollars as principal and co-principal investigator. Dr. Kinshuk is Founding Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technologies, Founding Editor of the Educational Technology & Society Journal (SSCI indexed, within top 10 in Google Scholar metrics ranking for Educational Technology), and Founding Editor of Springer’s Smart Learning Environments journal. He is also Founding Chair of the New Zealand Chapter of ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction, and Past President of the Distance Education Association of New Zealand. He has served on the Advisory Board of Dallas AI – nonprofit AI forum in North Texas with over 10,000 members, and on the Board of Directors and as the North America Regional Chair for iSchools – an international organization of around 130 universities worldwide focusing on various aspects of research and teaching about information.