HEM Impuls
The new HEM Impuls online format considers topical executive content and pressing issues in university management. The inputs promote deliberation and discussion in a collaborative setting: using innovative examples, they offer executives an opportunity to reflect on and consider peer opinions as a way of pointing up strategic orientations and possible ways forward. The online events are reported by science journalists and the summaries are published here on the website.
Barbara Fäh, Rector of the HfH, is responsible for the service’s conception and management; René Graf, Vice-Rector of the HES-SO, is the HEM Head of Modules; and Catherine Sokoloff is the HEM Head of Programming.
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HEM IMPULS 2/2023
Prof. Dr. Thomas Steiner: «AI revolutionises higher education»
September 07, 2023, 5:05-7:00 p.m
Input in German, discussion in German and French
Moderation: René Graf, Vice-Recteur HES-SO
The use of artificial intelligence is not simply a further development in universities. Rather, it is a fundamental transformation, as Thomas Steiner explains at the HEM Impulse on 7 September 2023.
«AI tools are changing higher education in a way and at a speed we could never have imagined», says Thomas Steiner in the core of his HEM presentation on «Co-teaching with chats, robots and intelligent students». And the expert from the HES-SO Valais provides a number of examples for his steep thesis: be it the design of teaching (students come to class better prepared than ever before thanks to AI), the creation of exams (ChatGPT can formulate, solve, refine and assess a problem) or even the implementation of research projects («with AI, you can recreate an entire study in three days – question, method, design, simply everything»).
A particularly striking example is the preparation of a paper by students. In the past, they needed Google, Wikipedia and PowerPoint as tools – and their own brains. Today, everything runs via AI tools that deliver the desired results virtually at the push of a button. ChatGPT creates the slides with the key statements on command, QuillBot paraphrases the text in such a way that the use of ChatGPT is no longer recognizable, Elicit contributes the references, Deep translates the whole thing into a language of choice, and for shy students Synthesia.io offers a series of avatars that then give the lecture themselves. It’s impressive – and it raises the question of the consequences. «The whole teaching has to be changed», says Thomas Steiner: «It’s becoming more and more a teaching at eye level, where I’m no longer just the lecturer, but also a learner.»
But where is the critical classification and understanding of the students? Or is the use of AI tools like the use of ready-made products in the kitchen – it’s quick to make and looks good, but you don’t learn to cook that way? Steff Aellig from science communication at the Intercantonal University of Teacher Education (HfH) asked a critical question in an interview with Thomas Steiner.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Steiner, Head of Cyberlearn, HES-SO Wallis
Report: Dr. Steff Aellig & Dr. Dominik Gyseler, HfH science communication
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