Let's explore the future of AI in Education | Hinesight....for Foresight

One of the cool things about being a journal editor is not only do you get to see what aspiring authors are interested, but you get to pick some topics now and then. And one I’d really like to explore is the role of AI in education. It interests me as a journal editor, as a professor, as a futurist, and as a human being.

Topics could include:

Applications and benefits: what might be unintended consequences?
AI’s role in personalizing education (anyone remember the “Primer” in Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age?)
Does AI have the potential to improve learning and life outcomes….or will it serve particular “interests?”
and more, more, more.

For those who don’t know, I’ve been the Editor-in-Chief for On the Horizon for a year or so. We have been sharpening our focus on the future of education and learning. We are emphasizing emerging issues, novel challenges, and strategic considerations specific to the future of higher education. It’s high time we start systematically exploring some of the big questions, and AI has to be pretty on the list!

So if you agree, and you have the time, motivation, and enthusiasm to pull together a special issue on the topic, I would love to hear from you. The details are here.

I’d love the opportunity to work with someone on the future of this vitally important topic.

— Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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