[Air-L] (Generative) AI and the automated university

[Mark Carrigan]

Generative AI arrives into a university system that is already to a
significant extent automated. Core activities are carried out through
digital platforms, key aspects of knowledge work are datafied and
algorithmically governed, and university communities are subjected to new
digital forms of monitoring and control. Artificial intelligence also has a
long history in the academy, both as a subject of research and development,
and as a resource for ‘enhancing’ education and scholarship, as well as the
administrative functions of the university.

In this webinar, three key thinkers on educational automation will address
the new challenges, problematics, logics and opportunities presented by
generative AI.

*Register
here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7HMBdMgqQ6y-wmnVjC4Zkg#/registration
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7HMBdMgqQ6y-wmnVjC4Zkg#/registration>*

*Janja Komljenovic (X @J_Kom_) is a Senior Lecturer in Education Futures at
the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the political economy
of higher education and its digital transformation. She is especially
interested in EdTech, digital markets, and datafication in higher
education. *

*Carlo Perotta is Associate Professor of Digital Education at the
University of Melbourne. His monograph Plug-And-Play Education: Knowledge
and Learning in the Age of Platforms and Artificial Intelligence was
recently released by Routledge. Paul Prinsloo (X @14prinsp
@14prinsp at mstdn.social) *

*Paul Prinsloo is currently a Research Professor in Open and Distance
eLearning (ODeL) in the Department of Business Management, College of
Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (Unisa). He
blogs (not as regularly as he wants to).*

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