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APT (Academic Practice & Technology Conference)

The Academic Pratice and Technology Conference (APT) was founded over 20 years ago and has traditionally been co-organised across a group of London Institutions: King’s College London, UCL, LSE and Imperial College London (with colleagues from Queen Mary University and Kingston University also involved with the event agenda). While the location of the APT conference has usually rotated across universities, for the past couple of years King's has hosted APT.

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King's Academy is delighted to be hosting and organising the 23rd APT Conference in 2025, ‘GenAI and beyond: inventing and re-imagining Higher Education practice’, which will be staged at the Coin Street Conference Centre, Waterloo. Click here for more information and to register your attendance.

Keynote speaker

Professor Denise Whitelock is the Director for the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University.  She is a Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning and has over twenty-five years’ experience in Artificial Intelligence for designing, researching and evaluating online and computer-based learning in Higher Education.

Moving Forward with Artificial Intelligence to support Student Success

The use of Artificial Intelligence to support learning is not new and its aim has to been to produce personalised learning systems which in the 1980s took the form of intelligent tutoring systems. This presentation provides insight into a number of projects aimed to support student success including those from my own AI research such as Open Essayist, which could summarise and provide feedback on draft essays, before the arrival of generative AI burst into the educational landscape.

Furthermore the presentation will discuss a Vision for AI and Learning together with a Research Agenda for GenAI and Assessment. 

APT is considered a key event for the academic community to focus on the relationship between digital technologies and educational practice, and attendees are invited from across the sector. In the last two decades, APT has seen significant and transformative shifts in technology in the higher education context, from the rise of now common processing and data-manipulation tools, computer modelling, the rise of the internet, teaching delivery modes and shifts into online education spaces, MOOCs, Virtual Learning Environments, Presentation and Interactive teaching software, VR and Augmented Reality possibilities, and now Generative AI.

In 2024, the 22nd APT Conference brought together experts and colleagues from various fields and disciplinary practices to discuss the "Dimensions, Reflections and Emerging Practices of Artificial: Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment." The event included 16 sessions, ranging from discussions of research papers and cases studies, to roundtable talks, workshops and a closing panel with Q&A. The inclusion of networking opportunities during the day allowed our attendees to connect and collaborate on innovative solutions and the hands-on experiential approach to the presentations fostered skills development in emerging technologies.

The conference emphasised the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to tackle complex issues and highlighted the role of education in preparing future leaders in an AI landscape. Our APT panel discussions featured prominent speakers sharing insights on current challenges and future trends in AI. The APT 2024 Keynotes were Richard Watermeyer Professor of Higher Education Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) and Professor Lawrie Phipps Senior Research Lead at Jisc. In particular, they drew on the impact of generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT in academia, focusing on agency and consent.

 

 

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