Séminaire du LIRIS - Colin de la Higuera - Intelligence artificielle et éducation ouverte : des défis et des opportunités pour les informaticiens. | Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information

LIRIS Seminar - Colin de la Higuera - Artificial intelligence and open education: challenges and opportunities for computer scientists.

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Colin de la Higuera (Professor of Computer Science at Nantes University) at LIRIS, on Thursday, February 13, 2025. He will come to discuss with us about the challenges of AI in open education, as part of a laboratory seminar. An appointment to note in your diaries, we are looking forward to seeing many of you! The seminar will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Fontannes room (Charles Darwin Building D, ground floor, on the left when entering the hall), opposite the T1/T4 Université Lyon 1 tram station, LyonTech-la Doua Campus.

Summary of the intervention: Artificial intelligence has become today a major player and issue for education. Some answers to the questions asked can be found on the side of open education, a position strongly supported in particular by UNESCO. Computer scientists have been present in the development of AI but also in that of the many tools allowing a more open education. Today, what are the questions that we must help to answer? The issues that we must share?

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Biography: Colin de la Higuera is a professor of computer science at Nantes University. He teaches and is a researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the founding president of the SIF, the French Computer Science Society, and is currently a director of the Knowledge for All foundation. In 2017, based on the Class'Code project that he helped launch in France, UNESCO created a chair in technologies for teacher training through open educational resources at the University of Nantes, which he has held since then. In 2021, UNESCO renewed the RELIA Chair "Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence". In 2024, UNESCO created a Unitwin network in open education, with 16 partners from 14 countries. Colin de la Higuera is the coordinator of this network. In 2024, he received the Open Education Global Leadership Award.