Theme: Trends and Current Issues
Specialisms: Generative AI
Speaker: Prof. Mutlu Cukurova, Professor of Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University College London
Facilitator: Julia Chen, EDC
Facilitator: Leo Chon, EDC
Date: 03 Jul 2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: GH201 and Online via Zoom
This talk aims to unpack the multifaceted conceptualisations of AI as tools, cognitive models, and agents within human-AI hybrid intelligence in education (Cukurova, 2024). Drawing on emerging empirical evidence from recent studies aligned with each of these conceptualisations, the talk explores AI’s potential to enhance productivity for both teachers and learners. At the same time, it raises critical concerns about the challenges of designing AI systems that genuinely augment human competence and foster synergy in tightly coupled human-AI interactions. The presentation underscores the unintended consequences of focusing narrowly on a single conceptualisation in research or practice, and argues for moving beyond reductive applications of AI aimed solely at productivity gains.
Cukurova, M. (2024). The interplay of learning, analytics and artificial intelligence in education: A vision for hybrid intelligence. British Journal of Educational Technology, 56(2), 469-488.
* This event is part of EDC's International Dialogues on Educational Transformation Series.
About the speaker:
Mutlu Cukurova is a Professor of Learning and Artificial Intelligence at University College London. He directs the UCL Learning Analytics and AI in Education team at UCL Knowledge Lab and leads the Design and Use of AI in Education course. In addition, he is engaged in policy-making activities as an external expert (including UNESCO, OECD, and EC external expert groups). He was the programme co-chair of the International Conference of AI in Education in 2020, CSEDU in 2022, is part of UCL's Grand Challenges on Transformative Technologies working group, named in Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists List, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Educational Technology and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
EDC Coordinator: Leo Chon
