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2023 Webinar AI and Open Education Flyer

Dr. Wayne Holmes, an Associate Professor at UCL Knowledge Lab, focuses on the critical studies of Artificial Intelligence in education, addressing its ethical and social justice implications. His presentation will challenge the aspirational claims of AI as a solution to educational issues, exploring myths and the impact of tools like ChatGPT from a human rights perspective. The Commonwealth of Learning, established to enhance access to education through distance learning, supports this discourse on AI in open education.

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2023 Webinar AI and Open Education Flyer

Dr. Wayne Holmes, an Associate Professor at UCL Knowledge Lab, focuses on the critical studies of Artificial Intelligence in education, addressing its ethical and social justice implications. His presentation will challenge the aspirational claims of AI as a solution to educational issues, exploring myths and the impact of tools like ChatGPT from a human rights perspective. The Commonwealth of Learning, established to enhance access to education through distance learning, supports this discourse on AI in open education.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Wayne Holmes (PhD, University of Oxford) is an


Associate Professor in the UCL Knowledge Lab
at University College London. His research takes
a critical studies perspective to the teaching and
Dr Wayne Holmes application of Artificial Intelligence in
UCL Knowledge Lab educational contexts (AI&ED), and their ethical,
University College London human, and social justice implications. Wayne is
leading the Council of Europe’s project: Artificial
Intelligence and Education. A critical view
through the Lens of Human Rights, Democracy
TOPIC SUMMARY and the Rule of Law; he is also Consultant for
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is frequently hailed as a the Technology and AI in Education unit at
‘solution’ to many of education’s core problems (e.g., UNESCO, for which he co-wrote AI and
OECD, 2021) – problems such as student Education: Guidance for Policy-makers; and he
underachievement, assessment at scale, and better is Senior Researcher in AI&ED for IRCAI (the
preparing learners for 21st century career paths. International Research Centre on Artificial
However, such claims tend to be aspirational rather Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO).
than evidence-based (Miao & Holmes, 2021), and Wayne has also co-written Artificial Intelligence
overly simplistic, forgetting issues such as agency, in Education. Promise and Implications for
pedagogy, surveillance, human rights, and ethics Teaching and Learning (Holmes et al., 2019),
(Holmes et al., 2021; Holmes et al., 2022; Holmes & Citizens Interacting with AI Systems (for the EU
Porayska-Pomsta, 2022; Porayska-Pomsta, Holmes JRC, Vuorikari and Holmes, 2022), State of the
and Nemorin, in press). Accordingly, this Art and Practice in AI in Education (Holmes and
presentation will explore the application and Tuomi, 2022), and The Ethics of AI in Education.
teaching of Artificial Intelligence in Open Education Practices, Challenges and Debates (Holmes and
from a critical studies and human rights perspective. Porayska-Pomsta, Eds, 2022).
It will identify and address many of the key myths, it
will explore the elephant in the room (ChatGPT and ABOUT COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING (COL)
similar tools), it will argue for a new trajectory, and it
COL was established in 1987 by Commonwealth
will pose more questions about AI and the futures of
Heads of Government “… to create and widen
open education than it answers.
access to opportunities for learning, making use
of the potential offered by distance education and
2 May 2023 | 10-11:00 am (PDT) by the application of communication technologies
to education.” Hosted by the Government of
REGISTRATION LINK Canada with headquarters in Burnaby, BC COL is
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cw_- the world’s only intergovernmental organisation
cc5XREOy-me4LjoSMA solely concerned with the promotion and
development of distance education and open
Image by mikemacmarketing – CC BY 2.0, learning. Check more at www.col.org
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95608091

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