How GenAI can support and challenge students
Which applications of generative AI can help students and teachers move forward? Consider support with lesson preparation, personalised guidance, and additional practice opportunities. AI can also contribute to better serving diverse student groups with varying levels of prior knowledge. But can AI also be used to challenge students more? In this webinar, be inspired by Mathias Vander Hoogerstraete (UGent) and Steven Verbeyst (VUB) as they share their experiences with a range of GenAI tools.
Learn from colleagues how they use AI tools to support and adapt their daily work, education, and research.
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Part of Peers & Prompts, online AI inspiration sessions for higher education, an initiative of the VLIR working group "Generative AI in university education," in collaboration with VAIA.
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GenAI as a didactic lever: from cognitive offloading to cognitive onloading
Mathias Vander Hoogerstraete, UGent
There is often a fear that GenAI leads to cognitive offloading, where students outsource their thinking. In this session, Mathias poses the opposite question: can we use technology to actually “make students’ lives harder” by cognitively challenging them even more?
From a didactic perspective, we look beyond the classic efficiency gains in lesson preparation and research toward live applications in higher education. How can GenAI be used in the classroom to activate prior knowledge, run quizzes, or generate tutor-like feedback that supports learning without spoon-feeding answers? An inspiration session for those who want to strengthen active learning through custom chatbots and prompts.
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GenAI als Study Buddy en oefen-hulp in het rechtsonderwijs
Steven Verbeyst, VUB
How can we support our students in acquiring foundational legal knowledge? And how can GenAI play a role in that process? During this session, you will discover how Steven and colleagues experiment with creating more practice opportunities and personalized guidance with AI. In doing so, they aim to address some pressing challenges in legal education: large and diverse student groups with varying prior knowledge, declining pass rates, and limited contact hours.
Meet “Lexi” (study buddy) and “Max” (practice question coach), two trained AI chatbots that support students in self-study and practicing exam questions. You will gain insights into the practical approach, the pedagogical choices, and the concrete challenges involved in developing and deploying AI teaching assistants.
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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.
Teachers / speakers
Mathias Vander Hoogerstraete is a teaching assistant in the Educational Master’s program in Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University. In addition, he teaches in secondary education, with a broad background in subjects such as Non-Confessional Ethics, Philosophy, Debate, and Cultural Studies.
He has a strong interest in the philosophy of education and educational innovation, with a specific focus on dialogue, debate, and conversational exercises. Within the domain of Generative AI, he experiments with applications to support teachers’ work and to create powerful learning environments.
Prof. Dr. Steven Verbeyst is a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the VUB, where he is affiliated with the Department of Public Law (PUBR). He teaches the courses Introduction to Law, Economic Public Law, and European Public Law. His research focuses, among other things, on broad administrative law, the interaction between public and private law, governmental action under private law, and European administrative law. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member for several specialized legal journals.
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.
Peers & Prompts: AI Inspiration for Higher Education
The most surprising discoveries often happen close to home. This also applies to generative AI! Are you curious about how your colleagues are using AI tools to innovate education and research? Want to learn how to integrate (gen)AI into your daily work? Then join our monthly online sessions and discover inspiring practices from Flemish university education.
Learn from colleagues how they use AI tools to support and adapt their daily work, education, and research.
