A. Cox
Jan 18, 2021
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International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
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Introduction The potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots to reshape our future has attracted vast interest among the public, government and academia in the last few years. As in every other sector of life, higher education (HE) will be affected, perhaps in a profound way (Bates et al., 2020; DeMartini and Benussi, 2017). HE will have to adapt to educate people to operate in a new economy and potentially for a different way of life. AI and robotics are also likely to change how education itself works, altering what learning is like, the role of teachers and researchers, and how universities work as institutions. However, the potential changes in HE are hard to grasp for a number of reasons. One reason is that impact is, as Clay (2018) puts it, “wide and deep” yet the research literature discussing it is siloed. AI and robotics for education are separate literatures, for example. AI for education, learning analytics (LA) and educational data mining also remain somewhat separate fields. Applications to HE research as opposed to learning, such as the robot scientist concept or text and data mining (TDM), are also usually discussed separately. Thus if we wish to grasp the potential Abstract