Oral Roberts

Infusing AI with Innovaon into Modern Educaon

Experiencing an emerging wave of increasing educaonal need and its importance in our lives enrely does hold heavy significance in all aspects we as humans could think of.

The innovaons of technological marvels have immersed our modern educaonal world with all its evolving constraints, evidently for the beerment of the curriculum and people advancing from it.

Technological advancements have immensely surprised us with their marvels in the most amazing ways. One of these marvels is Arficial Intelligence, also widely known as AI.

The way our lives are embedded into technological marvels, AI is one of those that constantly ease our daily necessies and enables us to do varied things dependent on it while enhancing the quality of educaon, which would make educaon and work a smart process altogether.

The introducon of AI into educaon has amazed not only the students but also the professors working to make it happen in educaon. And the ones making this history into the system are the two renowned professors, Dr. Williams Lyons, Professor of Theology, Minister at the University, and Michael (Mike) Mathews, Vice President of Innovaon and Technology from Oral Roberts University.

Whilst inslling the advances into academia, it is equally mandatory to make complete use of it through the various mediums it offers to its usage to students. It would be the first me in history that students have an interacve smart mirror that they can observe and reduce tasks of their journey.

It helps presents observaons from students' previous academic records, which suggests habits and paerns for beer outcomes for students in the University.

Let's unravel the intriguing journey of AI into Educaon and know more about it!

Guiding Lights of AI

The ones taking the responsibility of being the torchbearers of these innovave advancements are Michael Mathews and Dr. William Lyons.

Michael L. Mathews (Mike) has over 24 years of experience as a senior-level IT execuve bringing creave soluons that value the end-users of technology and business process management.

Michal has held posions as a VP of Innovaon, chief informaon officer, general manager of CIOs, chief strategist for innovaon, business development officer, trainer, teacher, and vice president of academic services for leading corporaons and higher educaon. Mike has been a CIO within higher educaon and corporate training for over 19 years.

Michael was named the 2021 Leading Technologist by CIOViews, 2020 Top 20 Business Leaders by Industry Wired, 2019 Top Ten Innovators by Industry ERA, one of America's Top 30 Educaon innovators in 2017, and a 2018 CIO 100 Award Winner.

With the supporve partnership, Dr. William Lyons is a Professor in the College of Theology and Ministry at Oral Roberts University and teaches both on the graduate and undergraduate levels. He holds a Ph.D. in Religions of Western Anquity from Florida State University, an M.A. in Hebrew and Semic Languages from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.A. and B.A. in Biblical Studies from ORU. He has taught at Regent University (Virginia), Florida A&M University, Florida State University, and internaonally in India, Guatemala, Russia, and South Africa.

He has wrien on the war in the Hebrew Bible (including here, the so-called "holy war"), ancient Near Eastern thought; women in the Bible; Old Testament character ethics; biblical hermeneucs (including feminist, rabbinic, and modern evangelical perspecves); and Wisdom Literature.

AI into Educaon

Iniang the beginning of AI at the University:

In early 2019 as a part of designing an AI environment to accomplish tasks required by students in a fresh new way. This AI-driven environment was called the AI-driven MQMirror. It included a Smart TV with a surface mirror over the LCD panel on the TV. While Inside the TV was an AIenabled programmed mirror coding language that

THE MQ MIRROR ALLOWS YOU TO NOT JUST SEE YOURSELF, BUT ONLY ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEE YOURSELF FROM UNBIASED EYES, FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE. AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE MIRROR HELPS TO KEEP YOU ACCOUNTABLE addressed numerous educaon challenges and displayed suggested recommendaons on the screen.

The newly introduced applicaon allows students to interact with personal data, global communicaons, selfnavigaon, self-help, data analycs, music, video, educaon, fitness, arficial intelligence, and roboc funconality via a glass mirror. This new form factor of a glass mirror has all the aributes to engage in human-todigital-and-visual interacon fully.

The glass mirror, combined with the ny new computer design hidden within the mirror frame, has made significant advancements in personal fitness by combining the mirror, smartphone, and wearable watch. All three synchronized together to provide a premier digital experience that accesses personal data, AI, machine learning data, personal trainers, e-Courses, and text-tospeech narraon. The mirror itself provides the real-life experience of both virtual and augmented reality (Mirrored Reality).

Diving into Mirror Reality

The ability to program AI within the MQ-Mirror has created a test case to permit students to interact with the mirror and test their level of mental health and well-being. Using natural language programming, mirror coding language and the AI capabilies of Amazon Alexa provides breakthroughs in creang an autonomous method to address mental health in a self-navigang manner. This concept of nudging students takes on a whole new meaning with the MQ-Mirror. Remember, AI can provide speech and text recommendaons (nudging) based on the recurring paern of behaviors.

The advanced AI intelligent Mirror applicaon has been designed to bring the power of IQ, EQ, and now MQ (Mirrored Intelligence) together via a glass mirror. The mirror integrates a mini-processor, IoT, AI, a digital assistant, and the enre world's digital ecosystem. Students of the University can access all global cloud-based services and all campus services as a life-sized digital assistant.

As humans, we intend to have an innate fascinaon with a mirror combined with the emergence of AI, virtual digital assistants, machine learning, eLearning, and 5G connecvity allows real people to become front-and-center instead of the technology itself. Up to this point in the history of computers, the device has taken center stage

These misleadings of advancements have caused many undesired social, physical, and psychological outcomes. They have allowed the labeling of technology 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc., versus a focus on civilizaon 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. CIO Magazine has labeled this newly designed MQ-Mirror as the breakthrough service called XaaS, meaning 'Everythingas-a-Service.' It's about me AI enters all sectors.

AI-driven Lives

With AI capable of mastering the repeatable processes in life, it can remove the rounes of the educaon systems, making everyone an academic success story. Designed correctly, AI has the potenal to liberate individuals to focus on the heart-and-mind maers of aaining the next level of educaon versus being overwhelmed by the roune tasks along the journey. These overwhelming everyday tasks cause many to drop the pursuit of the next level of educaonal aainment. However, not everyone has followed this academic pathway. The clearest example of a non-tradional journey is told by author Malcolm Gladwell of Chris Langan, who possesses the highest IQ in the world. Chris Langan's story is one of the millions of similar stories whose life circumstances have prevented them from achieving the next level of educaonal aainment. It is a classic yet oen repeated journey that happened to the very person who possesses the world's highest IQ. Malcolm Gladwell's case study gives credibility to the belief that the top academic students are not necessarily the smartest. Instead, it demonstrates that they have become adept at following the rules and roune tasks required to excel. Both Dr. Trent Grundmeyer and Dr. Sam Varano, who earned Principal of the Year status in Iowa and Pennsylvania, have concluded that the best rule-followers oen make the Valedictorian status. Suffice it to say; the best rule follower is the person who has mastered the roune of the educaon system.

In like manner, the global educaon picture is ripe to have AI resolve the everyday funcons that cause less than 7% of the world's populaon to have a college degree or cerficate. 93% of the world has limited access to quality educaon, knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. Even though we know that educaon can liberate people, access to these life-changing values lies behind the mundane rounes required to complete educaonal degrees.

Proficiency Of AI

We all live in an evolving world with increasing responsibilies, tasks, relaonships, and non-stop informaon. Wouldn't it be helpful if we could separate the roune funcons from the complex tasks? Our everyday repeve tasks are esmated to consume 90% of our day. What if we could automate 90% of the repeve tasks and perfect the 10% that truly maers? The 10% are the maers of the heart, which include faith, hope, and love. With such demanding schedules, it is no wonder that so many couples, children, and parents are prone to say things that they later wish they hadn't. We all love the people involved in our lives but expressing this love can easily be squeezed out among all the roune tasks in front of us each day.

Arficial Intelligence's (AI) novelty and intrigue make it one of the most fascinang yet elusive technologies. This intrigue is what makes AI such an excing and transformave technology across all industries and interests. Aer careful examinaon, many sectors (business, medicine, agriculture, and educaon, to name a few) have innovavely enabled subtle pieces of AI. These subtle aspects of AI inside products and services have given many companies a very balanced approach to the world of AI without sacrificing their reputaon with significant transformaons with AI.

AI is only suitable for roune funcons that it has observed and tabulated over me. This reality should counter any negave things we have heard about AI and allows us to leverage AI for the very things that we keep forgeng to do.

Married couples, for instance, will always be capable of observing and remembering each other's behavioral paerns beer than anything or anyone outside of the marriage. The miracle of marriage is a simple one: couples do know one another beer than they know themselves individually, and by loving and working together, they enhance the godly force of faith, hope, and love significantly. This is beyond the reach of AI.

What if we could spend 90% of our me on the maers-ofthe-heart while leng AI take care of all the common elements of life? This scenario is precisely the outcome of a happy marriage between two people who complement one another.

Augmented intelligence described in the paragraphs above would significantly reduce anxiety, stress, depression, disappointment, failures, and non-heart maers. It would allow us to focus on heart maers where all the real-life issues flow. In return, this would reduce the number of relaonship concerns over pey issues and ulmately reduce marital problems.

For some people, AI is a forbidden and unthinkable technology as they fear the displacement of jobs; or, worse yet, the entrance of the an-Christ into people's homes and minds. The reality is that arficial intelligence is much simpler than people fear or imagine.

AI is only capable of learning repeve paerns of behavior. It is programmed to know us beer than we know ourselves, but only from a repeve behavioral perspecve. AI will never be able to possess faith, hope, or love, which are the three core virtues of all people of faith.

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