Online Education Dialogue 2024 “Empowering Higher Education with AI” -Session 3

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various aspects of society, it is crucial for higher education to stay at the forefront of these changes. In 2023, the dialogue centered around the theme “Navigating the AI-Driven Digital Transformation of Higher Education,” bringing together 33 speakers from 14 countries for a series of 9 global dialogues. Through the previous events, we recognized the AI’s vast yet largely untapped potential in empowering and transforming higher education through improving personalized learning, enabling efficient management, enhancing research capabilities, and facilitating international cooperation. Moreover, AI can assist higher education institutions in fulfilling their social responsibilities and contributing to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

OED 2024 will follow the footprints from previous themes in depth and continue diving into AI-Led Transformation in Higher Education. Our goal is to equip educators and administrators with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the digital transformation driven by AI, ultimately benefiting learners and society as a whole. By exploring this theme, we aim to contribute to a wider understanding and capacity building of how AI can be effectively integrated into higher education to enhance quality, promote inclusiveness, and create impact. The discussions will foster collaboration, stimulate innovation, and provide insights to reshape the future of higher education in an AI-driven era.

Time

June 15, 2024, 20:00-21:00 (Beijing, UTC+8)

Objectives

• Exchanging insights from educational leaders on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Ed Governance；

• Showcasing examples of frontline educators using new technologies such as generative AI to empower teaching and learning；

•   Facilitating dialogues on the renewal of educational ideas and pedagogies: Adapting curriculum and teaching methodologies to support a student-centered teaching model；

•   Promoting collaboration and international partnerships for knowledge exchange, joint research, and cross-cultural learning experiences on a global scale；

Audience

•    Administrators and decision-makers in higher education institutions；

•    Researchers and practitioners in the fields of online education and artificial intelligence；

•     Teachers and educators；

•     Higher education-related policy makers and industry experts；

•     Students and the public interested in the digital transformation of higher education；

Format

Keynote address and panel discussion featuring 3-4 distinguished speakers

•    Keynote Address: Each speaker will have 8 minutes to share their insights or practices；

•    Panel Discussion: A 25-minute interactive session after keynote addresses；

Organizer

OED is organized by Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance, in collaboration with Tsinghua University, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and XuetangX.

Agenda 

Beijing(UTC+8)	Agenda Items (by   alphabetical order of last name)
20:00-20:05	Moderator Opening
20:05-20:13	Keynote 1:Mutlu   CukurovaProfessor, UCL   Institute of Education and UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London
20:13-20:21	Keynote 2:Shang XuequnProfessor, Dean of   School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University
20:21-20:29	Keynote 3:Jiao   JianliProfessor, Director of   the Future Education Research Center at the School of Information Technology   in Education (SITE), South China Normal University
20:29-20:37	Keynote 4:Wu LongkaiProfessor, Faculty of   Artificial Intelligence in Education, Central China Normal University
20:37-21:00	Panel discussion

Guest Information

Mutlu Cukurova

Mutlu Cukurova is associate professor of learning technologies at UCL Institute of Education, University College London. His research broadly addresses the pressing social-educational challenge of preparing people for a future that will require a great deal more than the routine cognitive skills currently prized by many education systems. More specifically, he investigates the potential of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and learning analytics with multimodal data, to continuously support and evaluate human learning. In addition, Mutlu works with Unesco’s international expert group on ICT in education, is on the working group of UCL’s Grand Challenges on Transformative Technologies, is an editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology, and an associate editor of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Jiao Jianli

Dr. JIAO Jianli is Professor of Educational Technology and Director of the Future Education Research Center (FERC) at the School of Information Technology in Education (SITE), South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China.Dr. Jiao is a pioneer in teaching and learning with educational technologies in mainland China. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in educational technologies, instructional system design, and Social Networking System in Education, and facilitated professional development programs for in-service teachers and faculty.

Dr. Jiao is one of the most highly cited scholars in Mainland China in the field of education, especially in the field of educational technology. He listed as one of top 50 researchers (ranked No.20) by the National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) according to publication citation and reference index database of CNKI. He has extensive experience in working with in-service K-12 teachers in formal and informal learning contexts.

Shang Xuequn

Shang Xuequn, professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University, national leading talent CJ scholar, currently Dean of School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University. In 2005, he received her doctorate from Germany and returned to China in November of the same year as the introduced talents for Western University of Technology. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as a visiting scholar in the research group led by Professor Zaki Mohammed, a famous data mining expert in the Department of Computer Science of RPI in the United States. From 2013 to 2017, she went to Yale University and UCLA for several short-term visits. She has been engaged in big data management and analysis research and system development for a long time, and her main research fields are data mining, machine learning, big data, bioinformatics, etc. She is also the leader of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Innovation team, Deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, Deputy director of the Information System Special Committee of China Computer Society, member of the China Artificial Intelligence Education Association, vice chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Computer Society, vice chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Computer Education Society, editorial board member of several international journals and Chairman and Program member of the International Academic Conference. As the project leader, she has presided over a number of key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, surface projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, national key research and development plans, etc., and participated in the 973 project and major international cooperation projects of the National Natural Science Foundation as the main completion person. She has published more than 100 papers in including Nature Communications, Cell Reports and Briefings Nature Communications in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, IJCV, TMM, ICDE, IJCAI, AAAI and other important academic journals at home and abroad and authoritative international academic conferences.

Wu Longkai

Francesca Purcell is a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Prior to her arrival at HGSE, Purcell was the program director for education and the development of knowledge at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences overseeing educational policy and research activity including a multi-year, national study with leaders in education, business, and government entitled The Future of Undergraduate Education, The Future of America. She formerly served as provost/chief academic officer at Massachusetts Bay Community College providing leadership across three campuses enrolling over 8,000 students. Purcell also served as associate commissioner for Academic and P-16 Policy for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education where she engineered public policy on college completion, student transfer, developmental education, and performance-based student financial aid and oversaw the review of new academic programs and newly-established colleges and universities. She is the recipient of the Governor’s Commonwealth Citation for Outstanding Performance in recognition of her contributions to public higher education. Purcell has held adjunct faculty positions at Boston College, Suffolk University, and Roxbury Community College and has co-authored works on international women’s colleges and universities. She has consulted for the World Bank and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation National Fellowship Foundation. Purcell holds a B.A. from Amherst College, a M.S. from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. from Boston College.

Longkai Wu is professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Faculty of Artificial Intelligence in Education at Central China Normal University, National Engineering Research Center for E-Learning, and MOE Educational Informatization Strategy Research Base (Central China). His primary research interests include artificial intelligence in education, virtual reality and augmented reality, formal and informal learning, STEM, inquiry-based learning, and educational information technology and policy. He has led tens of educational research projects and is currently the lead principal investigator of a key project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. He has published over 100 articles and has delivered talks across 14 countries and regions.

CAO Ruoqi

Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Secretariat，Research Director