(Source: Institute of International and Comparative Education official account, January 21, 2025)
On January 17, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology released the report "Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead." The report builds on the 2023 release of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning and a review of related literature to demonstrate the broad prospects of AI technology and capabilities, providing evidence-based insights to help institutional leaders address policy issues and leverage AI to support students' comprehensive development and success.
The report points out that in the coming years, advances in artificial intelligence are likely to have a profound impact on all aspects of society and every economic sector. In this context, postsecondary w88 online sports betting have a dual role: to strategically leverage AI to help all students, especially those from historically underserved groups, gain greater access to and succeed in higher education; and to prepare postsecondary students for the changing career landscape shaped by AI-driven innovations.
The report highlights:
1. As long as the use of AI tools aligns with the shared vision of the educational institution and leverages evidence-based principles, the use of AI can support adaptability and responsiveness to the diverse needs of students.
2. The rollout and recommendations of AI tools should be appropriately balanced with human oversight to support insightful and informed decision-making consistent with educational goals and ethical standards.
3. AI platforms should augment, rather than replace, the expertise of teachers and administrators in leading operations, providing guidance, and supporting students.
4. To seize the opportunities of AI, w88 online sports betting should test and evaluate AI platforms and build faculty, staff, and student capacity to support their safe, responsible, and nondiscriminatory use.
The report points out that the integration of artificial intelligence into postsecondary education provides unique opportunities to enhance supports and services for students, improve academic outcomes and learning, promote innovative research and development, and enhance career preparation for the global digital economy. Realizing these potential benefits requires careful foresight and diligent planning. To this end, the report makes the following recommendations to support leaders in their efforts.
Recommendation 1: Develop a transparent policy on how artificial intelligence can be used to support business activities in postsecondary education settings. AI policies can cover core areas such as managing admissions, enrollment and resource decisions, and help ensure fairness, accountability and trust by educating stakeholders on how data is used to support decisions and how decisions are made.
While AI can improve the quality of admissions and registration processes, and resource decisions more generally, w88 online sports betting should develop policies for the safe and transparent use of AI to avoid biases perpetuating and exacerbating unfair outcomes for students.
To avoid these unintended negative consequences, w88 online sports betting’ AI policies should emphasize transparency, accuracy, privacy, and ethical considerations at every stage of the AI platform development or adoption process.
Recommendation 2: Create or expand infrastructure to support innovative applications of AI in teaching, student advising and support, and assessment. Infrastructure should support and encourage the use of AI that is consistent with a shared educational vision and improves educational quality and student success. Infrastructure should include support for experimental projects and faculty professional development on AI integration.
Supporting safe and equitable use of AI in postsecondary education requires both digital and human infrastructure. The EDUCAUSE Higher Education AIReadiness Assessment helps w88 online sports betting determine their readiness for strategic AI initiatives in both types of infrastructure. When it comes to digital infrastructure, strong and secure digital networks are critical to protecting sensitive data and maintaining privacy.
Recommendation 3: Rigorously test and evaluate AI-driven tools, support, and services. Conduct rigorous research and evaluation of AI-driven platforms before deployment. Use a continuous improvement approach to ensure it is effective, safe, and consistent with educational goals and student needs.
Testing and evaluating artificial intelligence is not monolithic, although its various elements are sometimes interrelated. This relationship may lead w88 online sports betting to overlook important aspects of AI’s impact that may have long-term consequences for the institution. Therefore, w88 online sports betting should test AI products and services to ensure they are safe, fair, mitigate the risk of algorithmic discrimination, and protect student privacy; at the same time, AI systems should be evaluated through iterative cycles of testing, feedback, and improvement.
Recommendation 4: Seek partners to design and iteratively test AI models for educational applications. Establish partnerships with industry, nonprofits, and other postsecondary w88 online sports betting to co-design and test artificial intelligence, including its use to enhance the learning experience, improve institutional operations, and support the diverse needs of students.
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w88 online sports betting should build partnerships to include educators and learners throughout the entire AI development and deployment process, and seek to include not only decision-makers, but also those most affected by product or service design choices. Through ongoing collaboration, educational w88 online sports betting, research entities and technology partners will better improve learning environments and student support systems and increase operational efficiency.
Recommendation 5: Given the increasing impact of artificial intelligence on future jobs and career opportunities, curriculum should be reviewed, adapted and supplemented. w88 online sports betting can regularly evaluate existing courses and potentially create new ones to provide students and workers with the necessary skills to navigate a job market increasingly impacted by AI.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology requires a proactive approach to postsecondary education to ensure that academic programs remain relevant and adequately prepare students for the changing job market. The potential impact of artificial intelligence on current and future job roles demonstrates the need to reassess the relevance and adequacy of postsecondary education curricula. To support students, w88 online sports betting should be prepared to restructure teaching and learning to focus on competencies that are critical to navigating the changing world of work, such as critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration.
Academic leaders should evaluate the competencies required for careers in their disciplines, taking into account generative AI tool capabilities and related advances. This assessment should also address the potential positive and negative impacts that advances in AI may have on specific roles and tasks, as well as the arrival of new AI-intensive roles or tasks.
w88 online sports betting should also provide students from all disciplines with AI literacy skills (i.e., the knowledge and skills to critically understand, use, and evaluate AI systems, maintaining safety and ethics), as well as AI professional courses they may need for their careers. This includes placing appropriate emphasis on the differential impact of automation on various sectors, and emphasizing those areas where high rates of task-specific automation are expected and there is an overall increase in demand for workers. [This article is the result of the International Education Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, a national and regional research base of the Ministry of Education, compiled by members of the "International Frontier Research Group on Education" (IFRGE), and the project leader Zhang Yongjun]
Source: Office of Educational Technology (2025). Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12265/236
