From chalkboards to chatbots: SELAR assists teachers in embracing AI in the curriculum

TL;DR

This paper presents SELAR, a framework that helps teachers incorporate AI into their curriculum effectively, demonstrated through workshops with lecturers adapting courses to leverage generative AI technology.

Contribution

The paper introduces SELAR, a novel framework developed through workshops to assist teachers in integrating AI into their teaching practices.

Findings

Teachers successfully used SELAR to incorporate AI into courses.

Workshops demonstrated the framework's practical effectiveness.

Future enhancements will include more guidance and examples.

Abstract

This paper introduces SELAR, a framework designed to effectively help teachers integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their curriculum. The framework was designed by running workshops organized to gather lecturers' feedback. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of the framework through additional workshops organized with lecturers from the Hague University of Applied Sciences. The workshops tested the application of the framework to adapt existing courses to leverage generative AI technology. Each participant was tasked to apply SELAR to one of their learning goals in order to evaluate AI integration potential and, if successful, to update the teaching methods accordingly. Findings show that teachers were able to effectively use the SELAR to integrate generative AI into their courses. Future work will focus on providing additional guidance and examples to use the framework more effectively.