Here in the summer of 2023, you’d expect a huge edtech conference of academic staff discussing teaching and learning to be dominated by discussions surrounding Chat-GPT and its mutant generative spin-offs.
The twin pillars of opportunity to transform the teaching and learning experience and the alarmist threats to academic integrity and professional security loom large in what already amounts to the biggest conference centre I’ve ever sat in.
As such I’d perhaps cynically expected my sit-down chat with Ryan Lufkin, Vice President of Global Strategy at Instructure, to be full of bland platitudes about the way in which his company and its partners might maximise the opportunities and help neutralise the threats.
What I got was a refreshingly honest and reflective conversation with someone who’s clearly treading a fine line between supporting the staff who are worried about the future, and those whose embrace of it can tend to leave others feeling left behind.
