Using Generative AI for Teaching and Learning
The best way to understand the benefits and risks associated with the use of generative AI in your subject context is to test and experiment yourself. Since all teachers and students have access to Copilot there are also opportunities to do this together with the students.
On these pages, six areas of use for generative AI are presented, which you can access via the links below. At the bottom of this page, there are some links where teachers have shared their ideas for teaching.
Share your experiences!
When so much is new and untested, there is more than ever to gain from learning from each other! Have you tried using AI in teaching? If so, please contact the unit for Academic Teaching and Learning and tell us how it went, whether it was a success or a disappointment! We compile and help spread teachers’ experiences.
Six areas where AI can play a role
Train critical use of AI!
Read more about helping students build AI literacy!
Practice prompting
Train students’ skills in using generative AI!
Develop practice materials
Create example texts, materials for case methodology, etc.
Writing assistance
About AI as support for the writing process
AI as a sounding board
Get advice, ideas, and feedback on your own ideas from AI
Save teacher time with AI
Teachers can also use AI for certain tasks
Teacher experiences of using generative AI
At Uppsala university
Mounir Karadja from the Department of Economics and Andreas Stokke from the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University describe how student discussions during seminars can be enhanced with the help of generative AI.
International examples
J. Bliss, "AI Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI", University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper, January 2024, provides an interesting insight into American legal education, with both teacher and student perspectives from a field where generative AI is already widely used in professional practice.
From University of Oxford comes An introduction to the use of generative AI tools in teaching
From Harvard, The AI Pedagogy Project provides several concrete examples of assignments, where AI has been used, but also a general introduction to generative AI.