Saturday, December 21, 2024

Opinion: AI gives higher education opportunity to adapt - Brian Ray, Patricia Stoddard Dare and Joanne Goodell, Crain's Cleveland

These AI systems offer new opportunities for educators to create sophisticated curricula tailored to individual student abilities and interests. At the same time, the powerful capabilities of LLM models challenge traditional teaching methods by allowing students to quickly complete assignments from research papers to computer code with little or no original effort. Orienting toward “authentic assessment” allows educators to use the sophisticated potential of AI systems while addressing these concerns. Authentic assessment focuses on designing tasks that simulate real-world challenges and involve critical thinking and collaboration.