Dr Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is forcing a paradigm shift in higher education from ‘what you know’ to ‘how you will be’, with knowledge no longer the foundation it has been in the past. “Knowledge is no longer scarce. It is just one prompt away on your phone,” he said. Just as it was when electricity was first invented and “people didn’t see its value and the potential it unleashed until it became part of the system”, and Henry Ford redesigned the factory into an assembly line, so too with AI. LeBlanc said the situation means asking questions like: How do we rethink learning? How do we rethink the student experience? and How do we rethink the business operation?
