Ethical, safe and inclusive XR & AI technologies in TEL: the way forward

Ethical, safe and inclusive XR & AI technologies in TEL: the way forward

Monday 13/05 14:00-15:30h

Plenary Hall

Needs Analysis

The emerging technologies such as XR, Metaverse and AI are going to disrupt the educational landscape and the field of TEL in the years to come. According to the strategic documents issued by the EU Commission, e.g. recent communication on WEb 4.0 and virtual worlds, Europe will need virtual world & AI specialists to enable this transformation. The ethical challenges associated with integrating these technologies into educational practices are many and not very well understood. PhD candidates need to be able to address such challenges as a part of their TEL research career.

Learning Objectives

The main learning outcome is the increased awareness of the existing and future ethical and privacy challenges associated with the use and development of educational XR and AI technologies

Pre-activities

No prerequisites required (optional readings such as papers or EU policy documents will be provided before the workshop)

Session Description

The workshop is organized in collaboration with Horizon CSA XR4HUMAN project. The goal of the project is to create a European roadmap for ethical, safe and inclusive XR development and use, co-creating living guidance documents on ethical and related policy, regulatory, governance, and interoperability issues of XR technologies. The workshop with start with a presentation of existing ethical, privacy and inclusivity challenges associated with development and use of XR and AI technologies. The participants will get a demo of selected educational XR applications, with or without AI elements. The participants will work in groups to create ‘mini-roadmaps’ for ethical and inclusive use XR & AI technologies in their own fields. The participants will also answer a survey to provide their perspectives and inputs to the living guidance documents mentioned above.