Unknowable futures: Preparing graduates for an AI-evolving world (of work)

How can we prepare graduates for increasingly unknowable AI-evolving futures?

Unknowable futures: Preparing graduates for an AI-evolving world (of work)

In this seminar, Dr Danni Hamilton, Associate Professor Lauren Hansen and Professor Phillip Dawson share six curriculum-wide recommendations to prepare graduates for the AI-evolving world (of work).

AI is reshaping professional work, creating ethical, technical, and creative challenges that higher education must address or risk leaving graduates unprepared. Curricula need to go beyond safeguarding assessments to actively develop the capabilities students will need to succeed in the AI-evolving workplace.

To address this challenge, we propose six curriculum-wide recommendations, developed through a 16-month collaborative process involving seven disciplinary partnerships, engaging nine senior academics and 11 industry partners. The recursively structured recommendations prioritise cultivating the emerging professional self by enabling students to develop a personal, professional AI-evolved practice informed by their discipline and by scaffolded cross-disciplinary engagement.

Relational and critical encounters with AI are embedded across programs, often implicitly, positioning technology as a changing professional context within which enduring capabilities are developed, rather than as an endpoint in itself. These recommendations respond pragmatically to sector and employer needs and offer a roadmap for curriculum transformation, ensuring higher education fulfils its core purpose while preparing graduates for an unknowable future world (of work).

Join us in person at Deakin Downtown or online to hear more about how the proposed recommendations can help us prepare graduates for the AI-evolving world (of work).

About our seminars

The main seminar session runs for one hour (2.00-3.00 pm AEDT) and includes the seminar presentation as well as time for audience questions. If you only have an hour to spare, don't worry - you'll get the full experience in this main session!

At the conclusion of the main session, the discussion continues in an extended Q&A session (approx. 3.00-3.30 pm AEDT). All audience members - both in-person and online - are welcome to remain at the seminar and participate in this extended conversation.

For in-person attendees, the seminar concludes with afternoon tea and opportunities for informal discussion.

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