Working group to produce proposals to facilitate the use of AI in teaching
In order to support teaching staff, students and programme coordinators, the Vice-Chancellor has set up a University-wide working group to submit proposals that can facilitate AI in teaching. Photo: Gettyimages.
The Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint a University-wide working group for AI in teaching, whose task is to submit proposals on the development and use of AI to support quality, relevance and learning in the University’s teaching.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Coco Norén. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt.
Developments in AI are having a variety of impacts in higher education, while developments in this area are happening at a tremendous pace. Students, teaching staff and programme coordinators alike are all struggling to keep up with these developments.
“In order to cope with these rapid developments in AI, it’s important that we identify best practice, good proposals and the development needs within our University, but also from the higher education sector as a whole. The ambition is that the working group will be able to come up with proposals for the use of AI in teaching that can facilitate learning for students and teaching for teaching staff across the entire University,” says Coco Norén, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University and chair of the working group.
The working group will look to the future based on developments in AI in our external environment, and this includes other higher education institutions in Sweden and abroad. Another task for the group is to identify needs and capture development ideas from teachers, students, deputy deans, heads of department, directors of studies, and programme coordinators.
Proposals that can facilitate
The working group’s task is to identify needs and submit proposals for programme coordinators, teachers and students that can facilitate the use of AI in ways that enhance the quality and relevance of study programmes and the students’ learning.
The working group includes members proposed by the three disciplinary domains and the student unions. Experts from various relevant support functions may also be co-opted to the working group.
The working group will submit a report to the Vice-Chancellor in October 2025.
Anders Berndt