AI for improved student learning & employability skills
Lead institution: University of Sussex
Country: United Kingdom
Project primary contact: Josephine Van-Ess (J.Van-Ess@sussex.ac.uk), Lecturer in Management/Director of teaching & learning (PG)
Project Title: AI for improved student learning & employability skills
The project is: About to start
Project Summary:
Artificial intelligence provides opportunities for new ways of working for all professionals, including those in Higher education. However, these opportunities are not being fully maximised (Qadir, 2022) as there seems to be a focus on the “evils” of AI, especially ChatGPT (Mhlanga, 2023; Susnjak, 2022). I am trialling a teaching approach to enhance learning and employability skills. The project focuses on using AI to support personal tutoring on modules I teach to postgraduate students. The project will provide students with numerous ways to use AI to enhance their learning by using appropriate prompts to check their understanding and guide them to construct and scaffold their knowledge of concepts and theories taught in the modules.
These prompts will be designed so that the AI can provide students with explanations and where suitable analogies that clarify theories. In addition, the prompts will provide additional open–ended questioning that will provide opportunities for students to explain their thinking in their own words, thereby improving their understanding. This approach, I believe, can help minimise educational inequalities as it would provide a platform for foundational knowledge and equip students with skills for the future, especially as research shows that around a fifth of businesses are using AI in their operations (Handley, 2020).
Impact: Harness the potential of AI in improving student learning and employability skills.
Audience: This pilot project, when completed, has the potential to improve student outcomes, and others can tailor their teaching to reap the benefits of AI.
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