Full Description
Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the anxieties and social challenges of lost occupations, as well as the evolution of new industries overlapping robotics, biotechnology, space exploration, and clean energy. Chapter authors unpack the nature of augmented education, from revamping curriculum and personalizing education, to redesigning workplace learning for an algorithmic era. Ultimately the book discusses policy and planning for an augmented future, arguing that work and learning are undergoing a metamorphosis around creativity and innovation amid a new global era and the race against automating technologies. Bringing together expert perspectives from around the world, this exciting, informative collection of research and analysis helps educators, policymakers and analysts navigate the future of work and learning amid rapid and accelerating technological change.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Contributors Introduction Part I: Augmented Work in the Global Age 1. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework 2. Reimagining Education and Workforce Preparation in Support of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 3. The Bio Revolution: Innovations Transforming Economies, Societies, and Our Lives 4. Help Wanted in Space: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment in the Cosmos Economy 5. The 21st-Century Imperative for Universities: Redesigning Higher Education for the Climate Problem 6. The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence Part II: Augmented Learning in the Global Age 7. AI and Education: Will the Promise be Fulfilled? 8. Proceed with Caution: The Pitfalls and Potential of AI and Education 9. Extending Biological Intelligence: The Imperative of Thinking Outside Our Brains in a World of Artificial Intelligence 10. Education for a Post-Work Society: AI, the Liberal Arts and the Future of Leisure 11. The Most Valuable Intelligence Is Not Artificial: Great Books, Free Minds, and St. John's College 12. Chinese Globalization: BRI and the Future of Higher Education Part III: Policy and Planning for the Augmented Future 13. A New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan 14. US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence 15. Training the "Workforce of the Future":The Integration of New Technologies in Work-Based Higher Education Programs in Germany and the United States 16. How India Is Building Learning Technologies at Scale 17. AI ≠ UBI: Income Portfolio Adjustment to Technological Transformation Index
