What Constitutes Good Teaching in Higher Education?
Two academics with experience in delivering and researching teaching in varied educational contexts discuss the complexities of effective instruction.
Immersive technology expert Monica Arés explains how the combination of artificial intelligence and extended reality in education has the potential to unlock curiosity and learning, the costs that come with these tools and what she thinks teaching technology will look like in 2034.
Imagine a learning environment where an AI professor fields infinite student questions, where business students practice difficult conversations with an avatar that models an array of personas and reactions, where automated feedback is not static but dynamic and individualized. Artificial intelligence and XR tools are changing education and preparing students to live and work in an unpredictable world.
In this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, we talk to an expert in immersive technology, whose experience includes big tech companies such as Amazon and Meta, where she was head of immersive learning, as well as her current role in higher education.
Monica Arés is executive director of the Innovation, Digital Education and Analytics Lab (IDEA Lab) at Imperial College London. In this conversation, she tells us about the evolution of edtech from the early days of virtual reality, immersive technology's potential for unlocking curiosity (and the costs that come with it), and what she thinks teaching technology will look like in 2034. Hint: it’s a personalized, creative world with fewer screens.
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Two academics with experience in delivering and researching teaching in varied educational contexts discuss the complexities of effective instruction.
When hybrid learning and immersive technology can connect and engage students working in any location, where does that leave all those lecture halls and libraries? We ask two US experts about how universities are adapting to the digital transformation.
Find out how two universities, in Hong Kong and the UK, are embracing generative AI and building institution-wide digital expertise.
Middlesex University vice-chancellor Shân Wareing talks about the need to make the path to senior roles transparent and why confidence is not the be-all and end-all of leadership.
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