Abstract
Learning in higher education needs to be geared up to equip students with knowledge and skills towards sustainability in the fifth industrial revolution. However, industrial revolution is expanding intensely that its technology through artificial intelligence is developing to surpass innate human intelligence and education systems. This advances a challenge to facilitation strategies that they should be elevated to equip student with knowledge that will enable them to acquire authentic learning, critical creative thinking, competency and expertise to meet the demands of the fifth industrial revolution that are deeply rooted in artificial intelligence. This study explores the implications of pedagogy on open distance e-learning in equipping students to possess skills and knowledge that they can contribute into the artificial intelligence system. Building from the interactive equivalency theory, this research asserts that pedagogy in ODeL should focus on efficiently and effectively addressing the students’ diverse needs within the imperatives of both independent-oriented and interactive-oriented learning strategies. This qualitative exploratory case study engaged mathematics education students in a discourse governed by both independent-oriented and interactive-oriented learning strategies. Findings reveal that sustainable learning experience develop through interactions; and supports independency in authentic, critical creative thinking. Furthermore, findings show that interactions produce quality learning experience, established through focused interaction with peers. These produce sustainable content knowledge, competency and expertise for application in problem-solving in real-world systems including expertise to apply logical reasoning, critical and creative thinking independently along towards artificial intelligence systems.
Presenters
Motshidisi MasiloSenior Lecturer, Mathematics Education, University of South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, INTERACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM, PEDAGOGY, OPEN-DISTANCE E-LEARNING
