Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Socio-Technical Showcase
Speaker: Dr Roba Abbas, University of Wollongong, Australia
Date: 2nd Oct 2024 / 14:00-15.30 /
Location: Newcastle University Business School NUBS2.10
Organiser: Newcastle University
Event Details
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform higher education by redefining teaching, research, and administrative functions. Navigating the dynamic AI in higher education ecosystem is challenging and requires purposeful socio-technical design interventions to support the ethical and responsible integration and use of AI and other digital technologies. This seminar will showcase and reflect on a series of AI projects that incorporate socio-technical interventions for pedagogical innovation; human-centred research impact; and value co-creation in administrative contexts.
About the speaker
Dr Roba Abbas is a Senior Lecturer of Operations, Systems and Digital Transformation in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She served in research, teaching, and governance roles in multiple schools at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences / Faculty of Informatics from 2007. She is the Chair of the Technical Activities Executive Committee, Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the IEEE, and previously the Co-Editor-in-Chief / Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and Associate Editor of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. Since 2006, she has been researching socio-technical ecosystems, emphasising interdisciplinarity, co-design and complex systems dynamics at the intersection of society, technology, ethics, and regulation. Roba has been awarded local and international grants and contract research in areas such as artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and socio-technical systems.