Conference Agenda

Session
Closing keynote address with Professor Martin Weller
Time:
Friday, 21/Feb/2025:
4:05pm - 4:55pm

Location: Seamus Heaney Theatre G114.

Cregan Library Building

Presentations

AI, metaphors and ecosystems

Martin Weller

The Open University, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence creates an unpredictable future for many in higher education. When faced with uncertainty, metaphors provide a useful method to consider possibilties, solutions and impacts by transferring unerstanding from a known domain to the new one. This talk will consider the role of metaphors in undretsanding the impact of AI, particularly focusing on the concept of the information ecosystem. Metaphors of invasive species and control of ecosystems will be explored to examine possible responses to the advent of AI in the higher eductaion information ecosystem.