Keynote 1: Rewriting the syllabus: scaling pedagogy and research with Generative AI
Professor Vladan Devedzic
University of Belgrade
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) has brought many new challenges to higher education in decades. This keynote addresses these challenges in two parts. First, it maps the current research landscape, reviewing foundational papers and dominant trends – from GenAI’s role in personalized learning and automated feedback to the ethical challenges of assessment integrity. It also analyzes how GenAI is shifting the pedagogical focus from knowledge acquisition to critical knowledge augmentation and synthesis.
The second part presents some of the ongoing R&D efforts in higher education tailored for the GenAI era. This includes using GenAI to overhaul programming education for novices, specialists, and non-IT experts; leveraging LLMs for detailed student feedback analysis; proposing models for dynamic curriculum organization; and utilizing GenAI/LLMs for data collection to train machine learning models. Special focus is put on designing new frameworks to teach graduate students research methodologies that responsibly and effectively incorporate advanced AI tools.
This structure of the talk aims at indicating options for adapting teaching, research, and curriculum design to meet the challenges and harness the power of technology in the AI era.
Keynote 2: TBA
Proposed from Norway. To be finalised
Keynote 3: TBA
Proposed from Norway. To be finalised