Rethinking higher education curricula and competences in the (gen)AI era
How do you develop a faculty-wide framework for digital literacy, and what challenges and outcomes come with it? How can AI be integrated into the curriculum in a participatory way to prepare students as critical and constructive users? In this webinar from our “Peers & Prompts” series, Margo Dewispelaere (UGent) and Liesbeth De Donder (VUB) explore how we need to rethink curricula and competencies to implement AI literacy.
Learn from colleagues how they use AI tools to support and adapt their daily work, education, and research.
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Digital Competencies for Healthcare Professionals
Margo Dewispelaere, UGent
The ongoing digitalization of healthcare served as the starting point for developing a faculty framework for digital literacy at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. During this session, Margo will explain the process used to develop the faculty competencies, the challenges encountered along the way, and the results achieved. She will conclude with a look at the plans for the coming academic year, during which concrete materials will be developed to support programs in implementing this curriculum.
AI integration in the curriculum: Educational Sciences
Liesbeth De Donder, VUB
How do we train our students to become AI-smart alumni, educators who can use AI critically and constructively in their future professional fields? This is the approach of the educational project Liesbeth and colleagues from the Educational Sciences program are working on. The goal: to investigate whether, and especially how, AI can be integrated into the curriculum. Students, alumni, lecturers, and external experts are involved through a participatory approach involving workshops and focus groups. Liesbeth shares initial experiences and explains the steps in this process, discussing the resulting generic and domain-specific competencies and how these are being integrated into the curriculum.
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Ilse De Vos, VAIA
Facilitates the session and facilitates discussion between speakers and the audience. Ilse will ensure the session runs smoothly.
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Margo Dewispelaere werkt aan de Universiteit Gent als centrale onderwijsondersteuner en als onderwijsinnovatiemedewerker aan de Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen. In haar rol als centrale onderwijsondersteuner focust ze op basisopleidingen onderwijs, digitaal leren en het gebruik van generatieve AI. Deze kennis past ze rechtstreeks toe in haar faculteitsfunctie, waar ze de digitalisering van het gezondheidslandschap helpt vertalen naar het onderwijs. Zo werkt ze onder meer aan de ontwikkeling van een leerlijn digitale geletterdheid, met bijzondere aandacht voor AI in de gezondheidsopleidingen.
Liesbeth De Donder is Professor of Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she is responsible for the courses "Community Development and Participation," "Care, Ethics, and Inclusion," "Educational Perspectives on Social Work," and "Thesis Seminar." Liesbeth is the director of the Society and Ageing Research Lab, where she leads the research line "Care and Caring Neighborhoods."
Ilse De Vos
Ilse De Vos studied Latin & Greek at UGent and obtained her doctorate in Byzantinism at KU Leuven. She lived in the United Kingdom for five years, where she worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford and King's College London. In late 2015, she returned to Ghent as coordinator of an interdisciplinary research project on medieval Greek poetry and as a teacher of Ancient Greek. From 2020, she coordinated the interfaculty honors program Think&Talk and led the Humanities Academy as director. Since 2023, she has been co-coordinator of VAIA, the Flemish AI Academy that strives to ensure that more people (can) learn more about AI.
Lifelong learning is right up Ilse's alley. Every year she takes a course somewhere, from Gothic to Learning Psychology. In 2021, she completed the Specific Teacher Education program and started Business Administration.
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