Overview
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant history that has shaped and continues to shape education innovation. More recently, generative AI emerged with great interest and disruption, across multiple industries, around the world. According to Raj and Kos (2023), AI technology has the potential to affect the landscape of personal, social, and professional activities. Education spans any sectors: K-12, higher education, lifelong learning, and workplace development. It touches all other areas of study that are also steeped in AI research and study. Broad and appropriate education support and application across fields and disciplines is required. “AI in education refers to the use of artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to enhance the learning experience” (Harry, 2023, p. 261).
The course will present, discuss, and apply basic theories and tools in artificial intelligence for education and learning.
Outline
The course covers the following content:
- History and development of AI
- AI in education and the workplace
- AI as a tool for generating text, image, and sound
- Tools for detecting material generated by AI
- Generative AI and its impact on different educational contexts
- AI and the individual
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and describe the history and development of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Analyze and discuss challenges and opportunities with AI in educational contexts.
- Describe and apply different modalities such as text, image, and sound in Generative AI.
- Evaluate tools for detecting AI-generated texts.
- Compare, discuss, and reflect on how generative AI can affect and change learning activities and examination in a number of given courses.
Materials
Physical course materials
The following course materials are included in a course package that will be shipped to your home prior to your course’s start date:
Mitchell, Melanie (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Other Materials
Online Study Guide and Readings