On Wednesday 10 September, EDLAB hosted the first AI & Education Community of Practice meeting of the new academic year. The goal was to introduce the representatives for AI in each faculty and give CoP members an update on current initiatives at UM. Present at the meeting were CoP participants, faculty representatives, the University Library, Academic Affairs, ICTS, Corporate Information Office, and EDLAB.
The discussion highlighted three main themes: 1) Technology & security, 2) AI literacy and 3) educational quality/innovation. After short introductions, each faculty representative shared their progress and challenges in integrating AI into education:
Tom Gijsbers (AI specialist at ICTS) and Paul Grooten (Strategic Advisor data, analytics and AI at the CI office) provided substance to the security, privacy and fraud concerns. They also discussed the topic of digital sovereignty and ‘safe environment’ and concluded that both are necessary to attain but extremely difficult to fully realise.
Most documents and other resources mentioned above are accessible at UM’s AI & Education webpage.
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