Oct 7, 2020: Keynote at SURF Summit 2020

~ Peter-Paul Verbeek

Oct 7 2020: keynote during the SURF Summit, for all educational organizations in higher and professional education, on the challenges of digital technology in research and education, in times of COVID and beyond. How to deal responsibly with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in research and education? How transparent can we be about data and how well can we control algorithms? What could Learning Analytics bring to teaching and learning? And what are the ethical and societal challenges of the classroom of the future? See: https://www.surf.nl/agenda/surf-summit-2020-2jarenplan

Published by Peter-Paul Verbeek

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is full professor of Philosophy of Technology and co-director of the DesignLab of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also honorary professor of Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Verbeek's research focuses on the philosophy of human-technology relations, and aims to contribute to philosophical theory, ethical reflection, and practices of design and innovation. His publications include Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005).