Pr. Maha Gmira raises the role of AI in learning at UNESCO's World Higher Education Conference

The third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) is an opportunity to bring together stakeholders to define and prepare a roadmap for a new era of higher education in response to global issues and challenges in the current age. 

On this occasion, Pr. Maha Gmira took part in a roundtable addressing the impact and potential of AI in the rise of education. The main objective of this roundtable is to raise the intrinsic relationship between AI and higher education in an era where digital and advanced technologies are omnipresent, to explore AI's potential in the rise of higher education institutions, and thus to define the roadmap these institutions should adopt to accelerate their progress and development within the framework of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and according to the Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education. In this sense, Pr. Maha Gmira emphasized the importance of rethinking the model of access to learning new technologies through inclusion and equality of opportunity and gender to offer everyone the possibility of grasping the benefits and opportunities offered by AI.

Organized by UNESCO in close collaboration with the Spanish government, the government of the Catalonia region, the city hall and the regional authority of Barcelona, and in partnership with GUNi/ACUP (Global University Network for Innovation / Catalan Association of Public Universities), this conference took place in Barcelona, Spain, from May 8 to 20.