CNIE webinar | Looking Forward to 2022: Emerging Technologies for Education

This webinar is hosted by CNIE, the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education. Their description of the webinar follows:

If nothing else, the pandemic demonstrated the importance of educational technology to the broader community. And as the pandemic wanes (we hope), experts expect automation and artificial intelligence to disrupt work, the economy, and education over the next decade. That means educational technology seems poised to continuing playing a central spot in education.

What no one knows is how.

In this interactive discussion, members of the CNIE community interact with experts to discuss the “how.” Specifically, this discussion anticipates how the following technologies might affect education in the years ahead:

• Artificial intelligence related technologies, like automated marking of essays, speech and visual recognition, and personalized tutoring
• Learning and similar management systems, including blockchain-based record-keeping
• Learning analytics
• Emerging areas, like learning engineering and learning experience design

Experts include:

• Stephen Downes, PhD,  Researcher, National Research Council

Ann Hill Duin, PhD, Professor and former Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Information Technology, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

Stephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology. His degrees are in Philosophy, specializing in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has taught for the University of Alberta, Athabasca University, Grand Prairie Regional College and Assiniboine Community College. His background includes expertise in journalism and media, both as a prominent blogger and as founder of the Moncton Free Press online news cooperative.  He is one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a thirty-five year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of online learning games, learning objects and metadata, podcasting, and open educational resources. Recent work includes a MOOC on ethics, analytics and the duty of care and research into the subject of data literacy. Downes is a member of NRC’s Research Ethics Board. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.

Ann Hill Duin is Professor of Writing Studies and Graduate-Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, receiving the 2021 Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication from the IEEE Professional Communication Society and the 2021 J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Technical Communication. Her research and teaching focus on the impact of emerging technologies on technical communication, digital literacy, analytics, collaboration, and writing futures. She served 15 years in administrative roles including Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Information Technology where her commitment to shared leadership resulted in a virtual university, a new college, business intelligence/academic analytics initiatives, and inter-institutional partnerships. Her 2021 book co-authored with Dr. Isabel Pedersen, Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous, prepares scholars and practitioners to investigate and plan for the social, digital literacy, and civic implications arising from emerging technologies.