AI and teaching

On the "AI and teaching" page, we have put together some ideas for reflection and recommendations on how and which AI tools can assist you with the tasks of "planning and designing teaching".

On the "AI and learning" page, you will find recommendations that you can take into account for planning and design tasks as well as pass on to your students.

And on the "AI and testing" page, you will find specific suggestions for consideration in examinations in the "AI age".

All in all, our recommendations are the result of dealing with the topics with a critical and constructive approach.
We hope that this will support you in your responsible task of continuously and individually dealing with the topic and reflecting on your own attitude towards AI.

This discussion forms the basis for a responsible approach.

Course planning begins with formulating and deciding on the learning objectives or skills that students should have after attending your course. These form the basis for further planning across semesters, including coursework and examinations.
An AI tool can provide support here, relieve you of work and become an "exchange partner" available 24/7.
Based on your information and submitted materials (e.g. literature, description in the course catalog, excerpt from the module handbook ...), an AI tool can provide formulation suggestions for learning objectives.

The key to your students' successful learning is their learning activities. But which didactic methods can you use to promote useful learning activities for your students? The Curipod tool, which specializes in teaching, creates suggestions for interactive methods for entire teaching units. Generative AIs such as Gemini or ChatGPT also provide helpful ideas.

The content to be covered is derived from the defined learning objectives. You know much more of this than can be covered in one semester!
Here, an AI can help you to reduce "the material" to a didactically sensible level depending on the objectives and methods. To do this, give the AI contextual information about your course and a list of your content and use the "Seven of Reduction" to suggest cuts according to the importance of the content.

Written exam, oral exam, portfolio, essays? Does the module handbook give you flexibility in designing the examination format? Then an AI tool can give you suggestions for the design of the examination format. The most important basis for the prompt is the learning objectives, so the suggested examination formats can relate to the achievement of the learning objectives.

AI tools support you, for example, in the creation of information texts, work assignments, explanatory videos, visualizations or podcasts. You can create different types of learning materials in no time at all with AI tools, including learning materials that most teachers would not have been able to create without AI.

You provide feedback on your students' learning outcomes and learning processes. An AI can assist you in providing feedback on learning outcomes through formative "Assessments for Learning" or detailed written feedback.