The Elephant in the room

The most important insights I took away from the summit concern the elephant in the room or the attacking elephant.
The natural human response to an encounter with an elephant is fight, flight, or freeze; what should we do? Another insight was the discussion on ontological and epistemological development for open education and ethical leadership in the era of AI. See also my LinkedIn post from after the conference beginning of June 2024 

I was involved in several events myself

• ICDE Board meeting Strategy plan 2025-2028
• Panel Moderator at the session on AI creating knowledge (s), teaching and learning
• Chair and presenter of the ICDE OERAC WORKSHOP on Navigating the Future: Ethical AI Leadership in Open Education and Inclusive OER Learning
• Quality review on behalf of ICDE at University Terbula Indonesia, 2016, 2019 and now 2023. During the ICDELS24 in Geneva U Terbuak was awarded  the certificate of completion 
• Launch of the ICDE TIN Technology Innovation Network
• ICDE Global Advocacy Campaign
• ICDE Launch of the TIN, Technology Innovation Network
• Dissemination of Call for articles in Sustainability Special Issue on Sustainable Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  
  

1. ICDE Board meeting Strategy plan 2025-2028

The ICDE Board worked a full day for a draft for the new ICDE Strategy 2025-2028. Questions were on 

• How do we maximize our impact?
• Where do we need to make choices?
• Why, how,  where and which choices are needed?
• What are the consequences of the selected choices?
• Global market, large exchange of innovation and ideas for the design and delivery of inclusive, social, and sustainable education for all
• ICDE can shape the future of education through international collaboration, professional capacity and advocacy, and storytelling. THE FOUR Cs can be guidelines and manifesto: CARE, CURIOSITY, CULTURE AND COLLABORATION
• 2. I was a Panel Moderator at the session on AI creating knowledge (s), teaching and learning
• We had one hrs with in total of nine speakers, each speaker got four minutes, and we had a round with three questions for each of the three panelists. The questions were on 1. How are educational leaders challenged by AI in creating, sharing, and publishing knowledge(s)? 2. What are the key roles and tasks of educational leaders in creating learning environments in the age of AI? 3. How does AI influence the role of educators and teaching?
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  3. Chair and presenter of the ICDE OERAC WORKSHOP on Navigating the Future: Ethical AI Leadership in Open Education and Inclusive OER Learning
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  4. Award Ceremony U Terbuka ICDE Quality review
• I was for the third time Chair of the Quality review on behalf of ICDE at University Terbula Indonesia, 2016, 2019 and now 2023. During the ICDELS24 in Geneva U Terbuak was awarded  the certificate of completion 
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  5. Launch of the ICDE TIN Technology Innovation Network
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  6. ICDE Global Advocacy Campaign
  
  
• I am chairing the ICDE Global Advocactý Campaign Task Force OER, and previosly even the Nordic Task Force
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• 7. ICDE Launch of the TIN, Technology Innovation Network
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  8. Dissemination of Call for articles in Sustainability Special Issue on Sustainable Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) https://lnkd.in/drbjrKP7
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I appreciated the conclusions from ICDE President Mark Nichols in his Summary blogpost from the ICDELS24 

Fight, flight, or freeze. Instead, facilitate. There are clear ways of approaching AI in ways that enhance teaching and learning and demonstrate your university’s confidence that the imperfect, yet powerful, potential of AI has a contribution to make to higher education. Rather than being done to by AI, universities can promote and manage constructive engagement with AI in ways compatible with their core purpose.

More work is needed in at least the following areas:

• The data narrative. We often talk of data protection and data mining. AI invites us to consider data respect and data enrichment.
• Ontological and epistemological development. The implications of AI on what it means to be and to know need investigation. These are subtle yet important considerations for the long-term effects of AI on human development and learning.
• Accountability of output. ‘Human in the loop’ (HITL) is an approach that “allows the user to change the outcome of an event or process.”[6] HITL is not always realistic for AI output at volume. The parameters of accountability for a named human under various applications of AI need definition.

 See also my LinkedIn post from after the conference beginning of June 2024 

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