Stefan Popenici - Böcker

Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures: Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education explores the implications of artificial intelligence’s adoption in higher education and the challenges to building sustainable instead of dystopic schooling. As AI becomes integral to both pedagogy and profitability in today’s colleges and universities, a critical discourse on these systems and algorithms is urgently needed to push back against their potential to enable surveillance, control, and oppression. This book examines the development, risks, and opportunities inherent to AI in education and curriculum design, the problematic ideological assumptions of intelligence and technology, and the evidence base and ethical imagination required to responsibly implement these learning technologies in a way that ensures quality and sustainability. Leaders, administrators, and faculty as well as technologists and designers will find these provocative and accessible ideas profoundly applicable to their research, decision-making, and concerns.

Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures: Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education explores the implications of artificial intelligence’s adoption in higher education and the challenges to building sustainable instead of dystopic schooling. As AI becomes integral to both pedagogy and profitability in today’s colleges and universities, a critical discourse on these systems and algorithms is urgently needed to push back against their potential to enable surveillance, control, and oppression. This book examines the development, risks, and opportunities inherent to AI in education and curriculum design, the problematic ideological assumptions of intelligence and technology, and the evidence base and ethical imagination required to responsibly implement these learning technologies in a way that ensures quality and sustainability. Leaders, administrators, and faculty as well as technologists and designers will find these provocative and accessible ideas profoundly applicable to their research, decision-making, and concerns.

This timely Handbook highlights the practical challenges and ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. An international array of experts pair empirical research with real-world examples of AI implementation in teaching, learning, assessment, and administration. Bringing together critical perspectives from around the world, this state-of-the-art Handbook illustrates the practical dilemmas and ethical stakes of generative AI in lecture halls, research projects, and university governance. Contributors explore emerging trends, risks, and innovative applications of the technology in universities, proposing cutting-edge solutions to the challenges posed by AI to higher education institutions. Drawing on evidence-based scholarship, global case studies, and nuanced critique, this Handbook invites higher education stakeholders to confront AI’s hidden labour and environmental costs, question its social and pedagogical biases, and leverage its opportunities. This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students in all areas of higher education research and policy, particularly those focused on the expanding role of AI. Administrators, institutional leaders, and policymakers will profit from its invaluable insights into policy and governance. It is also of interest to curriculum developers and teachers, due to its actionable recommendations on the optimal use of this new technology.

This book presents an in-depth look at the state of transnational education and comparative perspectives on education systems between Germany and other nation states. It explores how a transnational education identity in secondary and tertiary institutions has developed in the German and other national contexts and which lessons can be learned from current challenges and successes of education systems. It uses detailed case studies to promote critical rethinking of current educational practices in high schools and universities, specifically of race, gender, religion and learner ability in educational settings. It understands learning and teaching as an arena to discuss transnational education opportunities in the 21st century as an emerging or evolving discourse on contemporary forms of transnationalism.