Our university and college buildings already contain a surprising number of sensors that could collect information about those who occupy them. At a recent event I spotted at least half a dozen different systems in a normal lecture room, including motion detectors, swipe card readers, wireless access points, the camera and microphone being used to stream the event, and Bluetooth and other transmissions from the many laptops and devices we were all carrying.
JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on mobile devices, lets me provide better indexing for posts, and gives better support for discussion and consultation.
It also has a snappier URL: regulatorydevelopments.jiscinvolve.org
I've started copying posts across, but if there are any favourites you want to make sure I don't miss, please let me know.
[UPDATE: thanks for your feedback. Final text has now gone into the Jisc production process :)]
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]
In looking at the many ethical concerns that have been expressed about the use of Artificial Intelligence in education, it struck me that most fall at the two ends of a scale.
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and Ecosystem: Generative Metaphors in Cybersecurity Governance" – that looks at how the metaphors we choose for Internet (in)security limit the kinds of solutions we are likely to come up with.
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI contains four principles and, derived from them, seven requirements for AI systems.
[What I meant to say at the Westminster e-Forum on Immersive Technologies]
If Education 4.0 is about preparing students for the workplace of the future, that's going to be a dynamically changing workplace. Even in my working life I've gone from VT100s to laptops and video-conferences. The mobile phone in my pocket is much more powerful than the first university mainframe I encountered.