The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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The Opportunities and Risks of AI in Higher Education
AI amplifies, accelerates and automates existing patterns. For anyone with learning differences AI presents both extreme opportunities and risks. AI’s powerful capabilities can bridge barriers for students with learning differences. Instructors can delegate formulaic tasks to AI assistants, freeing up time to attend to students. However, AI at its most basic is mechanised statistical reasoning and students with disabilities are heterogeneous statistical outliers in data. As a result, AI’s predictions and decisions are often a misfit for students with disabilities.
Participants will learn how AI enhances accessibility in higher education and the protections needed to prevent the potential harms of AI. AI presents a pivot point for education, providing a mirror of the current education trends. This offers an opportunity to consider how we design education in the presence of an educational future with AI.
Speaker(s): Sambhavi Chandrashekar, D2L and Jutta Treviranus, OCAD University
Target Audience Skill Level: All
Register for the 4-Part Series
This webinar is part of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals’ (IAAP) webinar series “Introducing the State of Higher Education Accessibility Series: Your Gateway to Digital Inclusion.”
IAAP Membership Savings
Minnesota State provides International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) Organizational Membership at no cost.
Registration for this professional development opportunity for non-members is $2,500 – so we are excited to be able to offer this to everyone in Minnesota State at no additional charge. This four-part digital accessibility webinar series will explore various topics impacting students, staff, faculty, and campus visitors.
To access the webinar, register below. Instructions to join will be sent in an Outlook invitation. The Zoom links will be restricted to StarID users.
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