The main theme of the conference is active teaching and learning which are the fundamental of education at the University of Southern Denmark. The conference intends to support practitioners’ mutual inspiration and present knowledge and experiences on how students’ learning is enhanced through student-centered leaning, active teaching and committed communities in accordance with the underlying principles of education at SDU.
This year we direct our attention to Teaching with AI.
The free access to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in autumn 2022 caught Danish educational institutions entirely off guard, and almost all – including universities – reacted with alarm and implemented rules primarily aimed at keeping GenAI out. It was soon realised that this approach was neither feasible nor advisable, and the focus shifted to creating rules to prevent students from cheating during exams. Now this narrow focus is beginning to be replaced by a more encompassing approach that explores how we can constructively and critically use AI to support learning in teaching, feedback, and supervision; how to make pedagogical thinking guide the use of AI; and how can teaching with AI be supported in terms of organizational structures and competence development?
The aim of the conference is for teachers to share experiences with the use of AI in teaching, including questions such as:
- How can AI be appropriately used in teaching, feedback, assessment, and supervision within various academic fields? Which types of AI learning activities work and which do not?
- How can AI support students' active learning before, during and after lessons?
- How do we teach students to write when writing processes are becoming increasingly 'blended'?
- How do we motivate students for active learning (to 'grapple' with material) when AI seemingly can provide the answers?
- How do the academic requirements for – and evaluations of – students' academic contributions change when AI is available?
- How can AI in teaching contribute to increased integration of research and teaching?
- How can AI assist teachers in their own preparation for teaching?
- How do we build digital literacy alongside the use of AI to educate competent and critical students?
The conference target group is primarily employees at SDU and the University Colleges in the region. Meanwhile, the conference is open to everyone and abstracts and signups from participants from other national universities and other educational institutions are more than welcome.