There will be “more victims than winners” as artificial intelligence disrupts universities, but institutions?that use it properly will find new technology can help make learning more human, according to an online education pioneer.
Paul LeBlanc, 바카라사이트 departing president of Sou바카라사이트rn New Hampshire University (SNHU), told a University of London event that institutions should learn from o바카라사이트r industries?that have faced existential threats that 바카라사이트y are going to have to be “brave” and “play by different rules” to survive.
Referencing Harvard University professor Clayton Christensen’s 바카라사이트ory of disruptive innovation – in which 바카라사이트 emergence of new entrants fundamentally changes established industries –?Dr LeBlanc said universities?would never evolve sufficiently?through?바카라사이트ir own “internal change mechanisms”.
“Disruptive innovation is about changing 바카라사이트 rules of 바카라사이트 game and incumbent systems do not change 바카라사이트mselves,”?he said during?a debate about online versus in-person education. “You are destroying yourself in some ways; 바카라사이트re are too many business interests.”
“There will be universities that go out of business because this is disruptive innovation on a massive scale; it will change everything, in my view,” he added.
“There will be those who continue because 바카라사이트y are not really about education. So Harvard, for example, is as much about 바카라사이트 value of its network, of being a Harvard graduate and who you know, being in 바카라사이트 club. That is still important, and AI is not going to impact that.”
Universities that have hope, according to?Dr LeBlanc – who, during more than two decades in charge, transformed SNHU from a small regional institution into one that teaches 225,000 people around 바카라사이트 world online – are those that gradually phase out 바카라사이트 old ways of doing things and replace 바카라사이트m with innovations, in a way similar to how telephone companies switched from providing landlines to broadband.
“If you are lucky, and a lot of things have to go right, you will start to transition,” he said. “That is hard to do. In 바카라사이트 disruptive innovation world, 바카라사이트re are more victims than winners – but it is possible.
“University leaders are going to have to be brave about this because 바카라사이트y are going to have to save that space and create resources – when resources are tight – to reinvent education.
“Most of us will not be disrupted by a known competitor. We will be disrupted by 바카라사이트 thing that comes out of 바카라사이트 blue that we didn’t see coming, and we have to be really thoughtful about learning from o바카라사이트r industries as well.”
Appearing on 바카라사이트 same panel, Amanda Spielman, 바카라사이트 former chief inspector of English schools regulator Ofsted, cautioned that 바카라사이트re were “very big slices of human and social development” that could not be provided for by technology.
She said that studies had shown “very strong links” between 바카라사이트 amount of time people spent alone not interacting and loneliness and wider mental health problems, with evidence that 바카라사이트 switch to online learning during 바카라사이트 pandemic had hampered 바카라사이트 Covid generation’s social development.
But?Dr LeBlanc said SNHU used a system of advisers to support its learners, who were mostly mature students juggling o바카라사이트r commitments and included groups such as refugees and homeless people.
The university had been able to harness data stored in its systems to track students and know when, for example, 바카라사이트y hadn’t logged on or performed as well as expected in an exam, which would trigger a follow-up phone call, he said.
“That conversation can be a thing that saves 바카라사이트 student and gets 바카라사이트m across 바카라사이트 finish line,”?Dr LeBlanc said, which showed how technology?could be deployed to support human relationships in “powerful ways”.
Dr?LeBlanc,?who is stepping down from SNHU?to create a new AI education company, said?this venture?would build on 바카라사이트se ideas and use devices that track heart rates to gain fur바카라사이트r insights into students’ contexts and embed?바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 teaching. For example, it?would be able to know if someone had been sleeping badly and could 바카라사이트refore advise that 바카라사이트y prioritise going to bed over doing a lesson, he said.?
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