Workshop 1 – What role should AI have in your course?  

What should students learn and be able to do themselves – and what role, if any, should AI have in their disciplinary work?

This workshop is one of three workshops that were offered across CBS departments in autumn and winter 2026–2027. The three workshops are now being offered across CBS for faculty who were unable to attend one or more of them in their department, as well as for other interested CBS teachers.

AI can change what students themselves do, practise, evaluate and take responsibility for. But this does not necessarily mean that AI should play a greater role in teaching and learning. In some parts of a course, AI may usefully support or extend students’ work; in others, a more bounded role may be appropriate; and for some forms of disciplinary work, it may be important that students continue to carry out the work without AI.

In this hands-on workshop, you will work with one concrete AI-pedagogical dilemma from your own course. You will examine the dilemma from four perspectives:

·         What should students themselves be able to understand, do, evaluate, justify and take disciplinary responsibility for – even when AI is available?

·         Where can AI support or extend disciplinary work, and where might it take over work that students need to engage in themselves in order to learn?

·         What do students need to understand about AI in order to use, evaluate and challenge it with sound disciplinary judgement?

·         How does AI form part of the disciplinary or professional practice you are preparing students for, and what does this mean for what they need to learn?

On this basis, you will consider whether AI should have no role, a bounded role or a more substantial role in the selected part of your course – and why. You will formulate a provisional AI-pedagogical position and invite colleagues to challenge its disciplinary and pedagogical rationale.

Finally, you will sketch a dialogue with students in which you can clarify your expectations, gain insight into their actual use of AI, and explore disciplinary grey areas that cannot be resolved through rules alone. You will also receive a question framework that you can reuse when new AI-pedagogical dilemmas arise.

The workshop assumes that participants have a basic understanding of AI and are familiar with CBS’ current rules and guidelines in this area. If you do not already have this background, you can complete an accompanying online introductory module in Canvas before the workshop and familiarise yourself with the relevant CBS materials. The workshop itself focuses on the pedagogical questions surrounding AI in teaching and learning. This Canvas platform will be available for participants one week in advance of the course.

Target group

Intended learning outcomes

After the workshop, you will have worked on:

• identifying and analysing a concrete AI-pedagogical dilemma in your own course
• considering what students themselves need to be able to do, which disciplinary work they need to engage in themselves in order to develop these capabilities, and how AI may change this work
• assessing and justifying where AI should have no role, a bounded role or a more substantial role in students’ disciplinary work in your course
• incorporating discipline-specific understanding of AI and developments in relevant disciplinary or professional practice into your assessment
• formulating a bounded and provisional AI-pedagogical position for one part of your course and outlining how it can provide a basis for dialogue with students

Workload: The workshop lasts 2 hours and is held in person.

Preparation: There is no mandatory preparation. Please bring your course and relevant learning objectives, as well as a concrete AI-pedagogical dilemma from your own teaching that you would like to work with during the workshop.

The 10th of March 2027, 13:00 – 15:00

Registration deadline: 03/03/2027