Webinar: AI and Higher Education Preparing Students for a New World of Work
Webinar: AI and Higher Education Preparing Students for a New World of Work
Date: August 25th, 2023
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
Date: August 25th, 2023
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
Overview
Join us for an hour-long moderated discussion featuring Paul LeBlanc’s predictions of upheavals in the world of work and higher education, Erika Burk’s real-world assessments of responses to Generative AI in business and industry, and Rolando Garcia’s projections of likely changes required in college strategic planning, management and academics in response to the pathbreaking new catalog of Generative AI tools.
Assumptions
The extraordinary media coverage of ChatGPT’s emergence has included, indeed featured, dire projections of resultant upheaval (1) in American business, industry and professions, (2) in the higher education programs that prepare students for related employment, and (3) in management, services, curriculum and instruction in colleges and universities.
In this restive environment, college leaders, faculty and staff are seeking to understand the likely impact of Generative AI tools on their institutions and on their own professional standing.
Proposed Outcomes
- Participants will learn how Generative AI tools are now impacting jobs in business, industry and the professions and how they might further impact the workplace in the near term.
- Participants will learn about planned and executed curricular and instructional responses to the arrival of Generative AI tools.
- Participants will become familiar with emerging strategies to optimize leadership functions, program management and instruction using ChatGPT4 and like tools.
