AI in teaching
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Image: Adobe StockWhy "AI" enhances your role as a university lecturer and opens up new freedoms in teaching.
Universities serve to cultivate and develop the sciences through research, teaching and study. The origins of many European universities lie in the medieval monastery schools and cathedral schools. This still has an impact on university teaching today.
Neither the invention of modern book printing in the 15th century, nor the development of the computer in the 1930s, the development of the internet in its current form in the 1990s, nor the mobile devices laptop, smartphone, iPad etc. of the 2000s have significantly changed the foundations of this constellation.
However, November 30, 2022 marks a turning point. Also in university teaching: the free use of the large language model ChatGPT is possible worldwide. The "genie was out of the bottle" and an ostensibly "independent, dialog-capable tool" entered the lecture hall and self-study stage.
The accompanying discourse can hardly keep up with the dizzyingly fast global developments of "AI" and their effects.
As a responsible university lecturer, however, you are called upon to engage in this discourse. You can make "the ghost" your assistant. It has already been your (uncontrolled) companion in the lecture hall, seminar, laboratory, etc. for three years. If you control the handling and use of "AI" in your teaching, you can gain time for the costly attendance time with your students.
If you like, we would be happy to go part of the way with you.
You will find an initial introduction, impulses and orientation to answer your questions in connection with "AI" and teaching, which only you can answer, on this website.
This page is under constant revision. We endeavor to keep it as up-to-date as possible. However, if you notice any information that is out of date, please send an e-mail to scl[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.
Please note:
The use of AI applications in teaching must take place within a legally secure framework.
In principle, the applicable laws must be observed and applied, even in the case of new technologies such as artificial intelligence systems
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These include, in particular, copyright law in accordance with the Copyright Act (UrhG), data protection law in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
and the Hessian Data Protection Act (HDSIG).
Access to AI applications for ChatAI has been extensively tested and is free of charge for all members of the University of Kassel with the Uni Account.
As long as AI use is still free of advertising, its use is still comparatively "neutral". As soon as this changes, there are opportunities for one-sided political influence.
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If you have any legal questions, as a member of the University of Kassel, please contact the Legal Department I or, in the case of data protection issues, our Data Protection and Anti-Corruption Department.