Artificial Intelligence – the impact on education

Course Code: WJB105C24

Start Date: 10/05/2025

Saturday

Session: Morning

Delivery method: Centre Only

Length in weeks: 1

Time: 10.00-12.00pm

Price: £

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is poised to revolutionize education, introducing transformative changes that promise to enhance learning experiences, improve administrative efficiency, and expand access to education.  As AI systems such a ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Poe, for example, continue to evolve, it is essential to address associated challenges to fully realize their transformative potential in creating more efficient, inclusive, and effective educational environments. This lecture explores the multifaceted impacts of AI on education, focusing on personalized learning, administrative automation, and the democratization of education. It also assesses, by way of several examples and case studies, how AI can reduce the time and effort required by students to generate essays, reports and portfolios, develop research papers and theses, thereby allowing them to focus on their academic and skills-based development. In this context, the presentation includes the effect that AI is having on apprenticeships and work-place-based training programs in the UK  as they undergo rapid expansion to provide the technical training and expertise required for a knowledge economy of the future .