Inge Molenaar
Human-AI Collaboration in Education: The Hybrid Future
Abstract. In her keynote address, Inge Molenaar will explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and highlight the possibilities and consequences of hybrid collaboration between humans and AI. At the heart of effective education is promoting student learning and talent development. To achieve this, it is essential to align theories and scientific understandings of learning and teaching with the possibilities offered by AI.
Inge Molenaar is the director of the National Education Lab AI (NOLAI) and a professor of Education and Artificial Intelligence at the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of technology and learning in various roles, from entrepreneur to academic.
Her research is about the interplay between data, Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in education. How can we improve student learning and teacher teaching with this? She investigates the use of adaptive learning tools in Dutch primary and secondary education in her fundamental research group the Adaptive Learning Lab. Here she also develops new prototypes, in which data, LA and AI reinforce each other. Artificial Intelligence thus offers a powerful way to make new strides in measuring, understanding and designing innovative education.
In the National Education Lab AI (NOLAI), in collaboration between education, science, and business, she is developing new prototypes of innovative uses of AI in education. This is the basis for research into new forms of hybrid human-AI collaboration and responsible use of AI in education.
Dr. Molenaar studied Cognitive Psychology and International Business Studies (Maastricht University) and holds a PhD in Pedagogical Sciences (University of Amsterdam). She has won several important grants, including a VENI, an ORA and ERC starting grant. She also advises UNESCO (Beijing Consensus) and OECD (Digital Education Outlook), among others. In addition, Dr. Molenaar is a member of the strategic team of the Dutch AI Coalitions, Jacobs Fellow and leads the International Center for Learning and Living with AI (CELLA), a collaboration between Florida State University, Technical University Munich, University of Oulu, the University of Edinburgh and Monash University
Danny Beckers
On the connection between blind dates and teaching programming
Abstract. In the 1960s, teaching programming became an educational goal throughout the western world. The US story is well-known. This presentation will discuss the political, practical and didactical problems that were connected to this new educational goal. Focussing on The Netherlands, a comparison with Czechoslovakia will be made, to show a glimpse of what happened outside the western world. The connection with blind dates will only be revealed during the presentation. (This is joint work with Helena Durnova, Masaryk university of Brno)
Danny Beckers studied mathematics and cultural history at Nijmegen university. He taught mathematics at secondary school between 1993 and 2005, meanwhile working on a PhD thesis in history of mathematics education. Since 2005 he has been working as an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he teaches bachelor and master courses in history of mathematics, history of computing and history of AI. His research focusses on history of computers and computational thinking in secondary education.