About the lecture:
The lecture deals with questions regarding higher education in times of AI and its main actors: the students and their diverse backgrounds. AI is the only solution for a successful future, says the voice in the Microsoft advertising video. AI will counteract social inequality in society, it is hoped, with the introduction of supportive AI tools in schools. Annoyed, I read the next AI-written assignment. Does AI really make things easier? What is the actual relationship between the socio-economic background of students, the use of AI and their academic success? Can AI help to reduce inequality and injustice in higher education?
About the person:
Lea Biere is a research assistant in sociology and Protestant theology at UPB. She is doing her doctorate in educational sociology on the relationship between social inequality and AI in higher education. She also completed her Master of Education in the subject areas of History and Protestant Religious Education at UPB and returned to academia after successfully completing her traineeship. She is also an associated doctoral candidate in the Transregio 318 Collaborative Research Centre and Deputy Managing Director at the Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. For Lea Biere, sustainability is linked to the question of education and fair learning and working conditions in science.
Lecture series "UPB for Future"
For the fifth time, the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics is organising a joint lecture series on the topic of sustainability together with Prof. Dr. René Fahr 's department in the winter semester 25/26. The lecture series is entitled "UPB for Future" and is aimed at students of all disciplines and study phases, employees and interested members of the public. The ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability are addressed and discussed in weekly lectures.
