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Mike Sharples webinar 2024

Extended Education

AI can support good learning, help to develop exceptional students

March 5, 2024 — 
“AI can do our mundane tasks like lesson planning. It can be an aide to creativity, brainstorming and design. But it is not a proxy for human intelligence. It does not have human experience. It has not seen a sunset or smelled freshly mown grass.” - Mike Sharples

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UM Extended Education Sal Khan webinar

Extended Education

AI scales up personalized tutoring, shows promise for the future

February 20, 2024 — 
“Recently, my daughter created a story with an AI prompt. She wanted to talk to the protagonist, so AI took on the persona. My daughter advised the character, a fictional AI simulation. It was mind blowing. This is the future. It is just the surface of what is possible.” - Sal Khan

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Man with glasses and hand on his chin with AI images around his head.

Extended Education

Generative AI may be the biggest thing since the internet for teaching and learning

November 22, 2023 — 
“With calculators, no one will be able to add, they said. The concern went away, and yet it was also correct." - Ray Schroeder

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Extended Education

Lifelong Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

September 29, 2023 — 
“Who is the owner of data? If you generate it, it should belong to you.” - Kelly Shiohira

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Extended Education

Additional skills provide opportunities for UM Alumni

October 4, 2022 — 
“There is a global shortage of talent.” - Yvonne Kinley

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Paul Jenkins talks lifelong learning.

Extended Education

Lifelong learning is transformative, leading to personal development and success

September 29, 2021 — 
“The skills gap — the gap between what employers seek and what employees have — has widened. That’s driving change. Our role is to respond.” - Rod Lastra

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Extended Education

Let’s talk lifelong learning

September 1, 2021 — 
“If you have completed a degree and are wondering what comes next, we can help you." - Rod Lastra

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Extended Education

Working together to educate and train tomorrow’s professionals

May 19, 2021 — 
“Flexibility is the future." - Cynthia Leach, senior director of economic thought leadership at RBC

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