Saturday, February 4, 2023
Christianity in the Academy Conference
"Technology and AI in Higher Education: The Problems and the Possibilities"
Union University
1050 Union University Drive
Jackson, TN 38305
In the 1970s, cassette tapes of lectures were the wave of the future in higher education, only to be eclipsed by VHS recordings in the 1980s and 1990s. Non-traditional, adult education programs collapsed full semesters into five-week terms meeting one-day a week for four hours a night. With the coming of the worldwide web in the late 1990s, innovators realized that courses could be delivered at distance without the need for the students to ever gather in person. This capability proved highly useful during the Covid pandemic when schools and universities shut down and all traditional classes were conducted over Zoom and similar technological solutions. How successful have these technological solutions been for learning and to what extent are teachers still necessary in a technological environment moving ever closer to AI instruction? How concerned should we be?
Keynote Speaker
Ben Mitchell serves as Distinguished Fellow of the Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture. Formerly, he held the Graves Chair of Moral Philosophy at Union University where he also served as provost. Earlier, Mitchell taught ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity Graduate School and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He also serves as the editor of Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics. A prolific author and popular speaker, Mitchell has long been on the cutting edge of research on transhumanism.
Location:
The Grant Center
Union University
1050 Union University Drive
Jackson, TN 38305
Registration fee includes the luncheon and keynote address. Advance registration is $60 for adults and $30 for students and those who are retired. These fees go up to $70 and $35 respectively when paid at the door. Checks should be made out to INKLINGS FELLOWSHIP.
Dr. Harry Lee Poe
Union University
1050 Union University Drive
Jackson, TN 38305
Please address questions to Hal Poe at hpoe@uu.edu or 731-661-5404.
