The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) has named Assistant Professor Leo Ureel, Computer Science , a Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and in Online Learning.
AI-ALOE Research Fellows have opportunities to participate in AI-ALOE events, seminars, and workshops. Additionally, a dedicated Slack channel serves as the nexus for the research fellows, fostering an environment conducive to idea exchange, project exploration, and collaborative research endeavors in AI and education. Discussions within the group address mutual topics of interest.
Ureel is among 27 college and university instructors from across the nation named AI-ALOE Research Fellows following two invitational research outreach workshops in December 2023 and January 2024. The workshops were intended to aid AL-ALOE’s role as a nexus for the fields of adult learning, online education, and artificial intelligence.
The first workshop centered on cutting-edge developments in both foundational and use-inspired AI, particularly for enhancing online occupationally-focused learning for adults. The second centered on specific ways AI can improve online learning to help the entry, upskilling, and reskilling of the next generation of American workers.
The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) is a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Accenture through NSF. Led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, AI-ALOE is developing an AI-based transformative model for online adult learning. This model simultaneously uses AI for transforming online adult learning and online adult education to transform AI. These innovative transformations are not “just doing things better” but “doing better things” in effectiveness, efficiency, access, scale, and personalization.