The Role of AI in Instructional Design

This book is entitled AI in Learning: Designing the Future. It acknowledges the

reality that AI is consequential for societies, organizations, work, and education and

that it is becoming more and more interwoven into the cultural activities of everyday

life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world. However, the title also raises

the big questions of what is learning with AI, who has the final responsibility

for the quality of learning, and who will design the future of learning? AI opens

enormous opportunities to education and learning and expands educational settings

for learning in and beyond the traditional classroom. However, many innovations are

still in their early stages and need much further research and deeper understanding

of what the human roles and responsibilities are with respect to AI's integrations

into learning environments and educational systems.

For advancing safe and responsible routes to AI in learning and education, the

researchers in Finland, the USA, and China have wanted to introduce developments

in the latest research on AI in Learning with innovative practices and new solutions.

Many chapters provide pedagogical applications and practices demonstrating how

to use AI at different levels of education and, in working-life as lifelong learning

settings. Cooperation between the three nation's researchers began in a series of

joint triangle conferences for Intelligent Digital Tools for Learning and Education,

organized at Stanford University in October 2018, the University of Helsinki in

February 2019, and Beijing Normal University in June 2019. Thereafter, because of

COVID-19, the cooperation has continued virtually.

The book provides cutting-edge research and new scenarios for researchers,

companies, policymakers, and all users including teachers and other education

stakeholders. It also makes visible that AI has many ethical challenges. The

penetration of AI in human life is connected to ethics, security, and human rights

and presents important new challenges to research, policymaking, and governance

as well as to companies with their AI businesses. Learning and education as

fundamental human processes and cultural activities centrally concerned with

human values are even more connected with ethical questions than many other more

technical applications.