Teaching (and) GenAI in higher education (A/B)

Dates and work units: 4 WU

Fri, 29th of May 2026, 9:00 – 13:00 o’clock online

Registration:
Please register until 15th of May 2026.
Later registrations may not be taken into account.

Content:
Due to rapid changes in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), we experience new challenges and new possibilities in higher education.
In this workshop, we will discuss how AI can be integrated into teaching and learning contexts, and how we, as educators, can help our students to competently use AI tools in their learning processes.
Therefore, we will focus on the use of generative AI (GenAI), such as ChatGPT, and reflect on the practical and ethical issues that need to be considered when dealing with GenAI in higher education (and beyond). Moreover, in relation to your own experiences and specific teaching contexts, we will analyze and (re)design approaches to foster competent use of AI in your courses.
In preparation for the course, please make yourself familiar with Chat.ai, a gwdg-service which allows members of the university to work with a variety of large language models. You can reach the service via the Academic cloud or directly via this link: https://chat-ai.academiccloud.de/

Learning objectives:
Participants ...

have broaden their knowledge about GenAI tools and their functionalities related to higher education;
reflected practical and ethical issues related to the use of GenAI;
encountered and discuss diverse approaches of dealing with GenAI in academic teaching and learning contexts and;
developed ideas of how to attend the issue of competent use of AI together with your students.

Venue:
Online: you will receive information on the meeting details before the workshop.

Methods and approaches:

Plenary discussion
Input
Group work
Individual reflection

Course language: English

Faciliator:
Dr. Angelika Thielsch: a member of the section for teaching and learning in higher education of the University of Göttingen.