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Keynote Speaker - Dr. Ed Lindoo, Associate Professor of Information Science, Computer Science and Information Systems, Regis University

Teaching in the Age of AI:  Preparing Students for the World They Will Actually Enter

Artificial intelligence is already changing how professionals research, analyze information, solve problems, communicate, and make decisions. Yet higher education is still wrestling with a fundamental question: should students be allowed to use AI? This keynote argues that we are asking the wrong question. AI will be part of the professional environment our students enter, and universities have a responsibility to teach students how to use it effectively, critically, ethically, and responsibly.

Drawing on more than two decades of university teaching, extensive industry IT leadership, and recent work integrating generative AI throughout the curriculum, Dr. Lindoo will discuss a practical approach to moving from AI avoidance to AI literacy. Rather than treating AI as a shortcut or replacement for learning, faculty can design assignments in which AI becomes an object of inquiry, an analytical assistant, and even an imperfect collaborator whose work students must question and verify. Dr. Lindoo will share examples from a recently redesigned Regis University course that incorporates AI assignments every week, as well as lessons emerging from his development of a new textbook on business intelligence and AI.

This keynote challenges faculty across disciplines to reconsider what students need to know in an environment where producing an answer is increasingly easy. The educational value shifts toward asking better questions, evaluating evidence, recognizing errors and bias, improving AI-generated work, and exercising human judgment. The objective is not to teach students to let AI think for them. It is to teach them how to think better because AI is available to them.

Dr. Ed Lindoo is the program coordinator for the BS in Computer Information Systems program in the Anderson College of Business and Computing. Dr. Lindoo earned a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University, as well as a Masters of Computer Science and an MBA. Previously, he worked in a fortune 500 company as Sr. Director of Enterprise Networks and Telecommunications. He has taught at Regis since 2003, becoming full-time in 2016. His current research focus is in two areas, “Ethics in Analytics and Social media” as well as “Supply Chain Management/ERP”. 

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