The book contains seven chapters describing how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently being used in six different institutions of higher education including both community colleges and universities. The first chapter is an overview of the history of AI from Charles Babbage in the early 19th century to the present. Each chapter also presents the results of research into what the possible impact of AI will be in 2032 and estimates of how AI potentially may affect higher education institutions in 2050. The chapters include the impacts of Artificial Intelligence on education, technical programs, student affairs, agriculture, health care and religion. The book gives provides the reader an opportunity to understand just how Artificial Intelligence will become part and parcel of higher education over a twenty-eight-year time period from 2022. This book attempts to convince those in higher education that disruption, phenomenal change, is heading directly for those of involved in higher education from the community college to the research university and every educational institution in between. If it is thought that change significantly modified the twentieth century, that is nothing compared to disruptions coming the twenty-first.
Darrel W. Staat is past president of three community colleges (founding president of one) and president of the South Carolina Technical College System. He is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Higher Education Executive Leadership Program at Wingate University in North Carolina.
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence Background Chapter 2: Artificial Intelligence and Education Chapter 3: Artificial Intelligence and Technical Programs Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence and Student Affairs Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence and Agriculture Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence and Health Care Chapter 7: Artificial Intelligence and Religion Epilogue About the Contributors About the Editor
As an educational leader of the present and future, I found Digital Directions: Artificial Intelligence Pathways for Higher Education to be extremely relevant and forward thinking! If we are to prepare our students to be leaders in their chosen professions, we must prepare them for the exponential growth and use of AI in our society for the future. This book does just that by helping convey the advances, possibilities and needs for AI in higher education, and the workplace of the future. Digital Directions: Artificial Intelligence Pathways for Higher Education is a must read for all leaders in higher education today. -- Catherine L. Holton, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, Associate Dean, Nursing Programs, Walden University, Florida A must read for educators trying to look at the future of higher education. Chapters explain the future use of AI in all areas of the institution and the potential for its dramatic growth in the next ten years and beyond. -- John Mckay, EdD, President, South Piedmont Community College, NC (Retired) Digital Directions: Artificial Intelligence Pathways for Higher Education is an insightful look at how educational leaders are transforming services and programs through AI and other intelligent technologies. There is an in-depth examination of the current and future impacts of AI on education in each chapter. The book explains how artificial intelligence affects virtually all aspects of our lives, including work, communication, entertainment, and especially education. -- Shelly Stone-Moye, Vice President for Student Services. Piedmont Technical Community College, North Carolina
