Discover the Way forward for AI in Greater Ed at SXSW EDU 2025

This March 3-6 in Austin, TX, the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival celebrates its fifteenth 12 months of exploring training’s most important points and offering a discussion board for creativity, innovation, and expression. Matters for this 12 months’s panels, workshops, and conversations “vary from moral AI utility and strengthening expertise pipelines, to rising areas of curiosity resembling non-traditional studying areas and enhancing alternatives for neurodivergent college students and educators,” based on organizers.

Not surprisingly, among the many multitude of traits and applied sciences on the agenda, the occasion options dozens of classes centered on varied features of synthetic intelligence. Particularly, 5 classes supply a perspective on AI in increased training:  

Navigation & Guidance in the Age of AI
This panel that includes Julia Freeland Fisher, director of training on the Clayton Christensen Institute, Tiffany Inexperienced, founder and CEO of Uprooted Academy, David Ma, CEO of Hope Street Group, and Brooke McKean, president and co-chief govt officer of REACH Pathways, will focus on the potential of generative AI to offer college students entry to 24/7 assist and “construct a system the place steering and assist are now not luxurious items.”

AI-Powered Theatremaking
Find out how Will Lowry, affiliate professor and scenographer at Lehigh University, developed “Can AI Make Artwork?”, a first-year theater seminar that included AI to “develop textual and audiovisual elements of embodied storytelling, resembling tableau narratives, cut-up spoken phrase, site-specific local weather scenework, and Turing Check monologues.”

Equity-Centered AI in Holistic Student Support Functions
On this session, increased training leaders, tech resolution builders, and implementers will discover how AI can improve pupil assist, significantly from the angle of establishments that serve college students from under-represented minority and low-income backgrounds. Panelists embody Joe Licata, founder and CEO of Canyon GBS, Cecelia Marshall, director of exterior partnerships at Partnership for Education Advancement, Clyne G.H. Namuo, president of Joliet Junior College, and Shmona Simpson, founder and CEO of Paritii.

AI & Edu: Sharing Real Classroom Successes & Challenges
This topic-focused networking occasion provides a possibility to share real-world experiences and proof about tips on how to use AI to enhance pupil engagement, studying, and ability improvement. Members are inspired to carry their very own classroom examples and questions. The session shall be facilitated by Zhuo Chen, textual content evaluation teacher on the Constellate workforce at ITHAKA, and Dylan Ruediger, principal of The Analysis Enterprise at Ithaka S+R.

Navigating the AI & XR Revolution: A Cross-Sector View
On this interactive meet-up session, discover the challenges and alternatives of AI and XR applied sciences in training with Simeon van Eijl, innovation and tech supervisor for Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Erik Woning, program supervisor, Innovation & Schooling, at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam.

View the complete schedule of SXSW EDU classes and occasions at SXSWEDU.com.