Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures

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.

Stefan Popenici is Academic Lead for Quality Initiatives in Education Strategy at Charles Darwin University, Australia.

Introduction Section 1: Education, Artificial Intelligence and Ideology 1. The Ideological Roots of Intelligence. 2. Imaginations, Education and the American Dream 3. The Narrative Construction of AI Section 2: Higher Learning 4. Automation of Teaching and Learning 5. Surveillance, Control and Power - the AI Challenge 6. Beauty and the Love for Learning Section 3: The Future of Higher Education 7. Imagination and Education 8. Scenarios for Higher Education 9. Re-storying Higher Learning