TLC Conference 2024

The widespread accessibility of generative AI tools in higher education has sparked both enthusiasm and concern, as the latest AI systems will significantly impact teaching and learning, offering opportunities and challenges for educators and students. GenAI, a subset of AI, harnesses generative capabilities, enabling machines to comprehend, process information, and autonomously generate human-like content. This evolution stems from advancements in natural language processing and machine learning technologies within the AI landscape. 

Teaching and assessing academic writing in times of GenAI | Joost Krijnen and Lotte Tavecchio 

GenAI tools pose significant threats as well as opportunities for teaching and assessing academic writing. In the course Advanced Research Writing at Amsterdam University College, Joost Krijnen and Lotte Tavecchio allow students to embrace the opportunities offered by GenAI. They will discuss the rules and guidelines they have developed and the adaptations to their assessment structure they have made to mitigate the risks of GenAI. 

Using AI for brainstorming and virtual stakeholder analysis: | Morten Strömme 

Morten Strömme, from UvA’s IIS Education Lab, will share a year of GenAI experiments, focusing on prompt engineering and applications in brainstorming, virtual stakeholder analysis, and more during the minor ST&I: Biomimicry. Gain insights into key lessons and explore possible future teaching methods that can enhance student (and teacher) engagement and collaboration. 

Ira Lenters, Project Leader Studium Digitale from the University Library will examine how to educate students in ChatGPT’s academic use, discussing the balance between optimising ChatGPT’s potential while maintaining academic integrity. Moreover, she will engage in a dialogue that explores the introduction of ChatGPT in academia, with the focus on insights of student experiences gathered from the workshop ‘Prompting in ChatGPT’. 

Explore creating GenAI-resilient assignments with Hakan Körlü, TLC-EB Teacher Educator. Bring an old assignment or assessment for a hands-on exercise. Gain insights into tweaking current assessments for enhanced critical thinking and creativity while minimising reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT. 

As technology reshapes education, it’s vital to adapt and harness its benefits effectively. How do we navigate this dynamic landscape, steering education towards innovation and relevance? This workshop delves into generative AI such as ChatGPT, empowering educators to embrace its capabilities and integrate them into their higher education practices. 
Maurice Schols is an assistant professor in the research group ‘Domain Specific Learning’ of the Research Institute of Child Development and Education at UvA. His research interests include the professionalisation of teachers in technology, AI and transformative learning. 

Ira Lenters, Project Leader Studium Digitale from the University Library, will examine how to educate students in ChatGPT’s academic use, discussing the balance between optimising ChatGPT’s potential while maintaining academic integrity. Moreover, she will engage in a dialogue that explores the introduction of ChatGPT in academia, with the focus on insights of student experiences gathered from the workshop ‘Prompting in ChatGPT’. 

GenAI in Teaching: Strategies for Team Assignments, Research, and Personal Growth | Somendra Narayan 

Somendra Narayan, assistant professor of Strategy and International Business, will focus on GenAI’s applications in teaching, including content creation, team assignments, research writing, data analysis, and personal growth, highlighting its transformative potential in teaching and research. 

How ChatGPT helps me daily | Joaquim Gromicho
Joaquim Gromicho, professor of Business Analytics at the Amsterdam Business School, will share how ChatGPT became a regular tool for him in preparing lectures and lecture notes, designing exercises, producing data sets and other such tasks. Joaquim shares many examples with his students, stressing what helps them in learning better.

Evaluating LLM’s efficacy as an automatic feedback and grading tool | Karin Venetis
Karin Venetis, assistant professor of Marketing and TLC-EB affiliate, will share her research plans to evaluate the accuracy of ChatGPT-4 in grading and giving feedback to large groups of students on assessments of higher order levels of knowledge, comparing it to existing methods for large student groups. 

• Prof. Dr. Peter van Baalen- Professor Information Management and Digital Organisation (UvA EB); member of the UvA-VU Taskforce AI in Education
• Prof. Dr. Felienne Hermans- Professor of computational science education and computer science teacher trainer at the Vrije Universiteit; member of the UvA-VU Taskforce AI in Education
• Dr. Ivar Kolvoort- Advisor AI in higher education at TLC Central and Postdoc researcher in AI & Embodied cognitive science (UvA), member of the UvA-wide working group AI in Education
• Lorenzo Raschi (EB student)- first-year Business Analytics student (UvA EB), early GenAI adopter and frequent user