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With many potentials such as customized learning experiences, intelligent tutoring, automated grading, content creation, and personalized career advice, there are also a wide range of challenges such as bias in data and algorithms, lack of transparency, overreliance on AI, data privacy and security, access and equity, automation, and singularity. Based on these considerations, generative AI requires enhancing the scope of current educational roles or adopting new ones , such as facilitators of learning, curators of learning resources, designers of learning experiences, and assessors of learning. Though distance education and online learning are mostly attributed spatial and temporal distances , generative AI should also be considered in terms of transactional distance. While the use of generative AI has the potential to decrease the transactional distance , educators still can play a crucial role in bridging this gap by providing personalized support and guidance throughout the learning process not only in terms of pedagogical aspects, but also from the perspective of pedagogy of care and human-centered learning design.  \nKeywords: generative artificial intelligence (AI), artificial intelligence in education (AIEd), online learning, distance education, transactional distance  \nHighlights  \nWhat is already known about this topic:  \n• AI is a fast-advancing field with implications in the educational landscape.  \n• Generative AI offers many tasks conducted by humans .  \nWhat this paper contributes:  \n• This article offers a critical perspective on the roles of AI in distance education and online learning.  \n• This paper presents provocative ideas about the roles of humans in the educational landscape . Implications for theory, practice and/or policy:  \n• Educators can adopt their new roles to fully benefit from the potential of generative AI.  \n• Generative AI can lessen transactional distance by increasing the dialogue and autonomy and lessening the structure, which further requires redesigning the learning.  \n• Against the wide use of generative AI, there is a need to prioritize pedagogy of care and humancentered learning design.  \nIntroduction: Towards New Chapters  \n“How will you add value in the era of generative AI? If you aren’t attempting to answer this question now by choice, it will ultimately be answered for you by force.”  \n―Hendrith Vanlon Smith  \nBy the advent of 2023, we have seen a surge of interest in \"generative AI\" - a subset of artificial intelligence that is capable of creating new content, rather than simply following pre-programmed rules (Bozkurt et al. , 2023; Crawford et al. , 2023; Tlili et al. , 2023) . Though some missing conversational depths were reported (Skjuve et al. , 2023), from chatbots that can carry on realistic conversations to machine and deep learning models that can generate entire works of art or music, generative AI is transforming the way we think about creativity and innovation (Tlili et al. , 2023) . Most importantly, generative AI is able to use the most sophisticated technology developed by humans, namely languages (Bozkurt, 2023) . If that is the case, what role does generative AI have in education?  \nRelated Literature: From Generic AI to Generative AI  \n“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be  \nthe last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”  \n– Stephen Hawking  \nNumerous studies have reported the benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) in education, with AI being applied in online higher education to predict student per","cbCairsSTqlb2HNt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairsSTqlb2HNt","pdf",278118,"English","# Highlights\n## What is already known about this topic\n## What this paper contributes\n## Implications for theory, practice and/or policy\n# Introduction: Towards New Chapters\n# Related Literature: From Generic AI to Generative AI","[{\"question\":\"What potential roles can generative AI play in distance education and online learning?\",\"answer\":\"It can support customized learning experiences, intelligent tutoring, automated grading, content creation, and personalized career advice.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenges does the document highlight regarding generative AI in education?\",\"answer\":\"Key challenges include bias, lack of transparency, overreliance on AI, data privacy and security issues, and access and equity concerns, alongside automation-related risks.\"},{\"question\":\"How should educators respond to generative AI according to the paper?\",\"answer\":\"Educators should expand or adapt their roles—such as learning facilitators, resource curators, learning-experience designers, and assessors—to provide personalized guidance throughout learning, emphasizing pedagogy of care and human-centered design.\"}]","Challenging the Status Quo and Exploring the New Boundaries in the Age of Algorithms - Reimagining the Role of Generative AI in Distance Education and Online Learning | PDF",1792076775]