12-11-2025 –, Spinoza foyer
Are you curious about how artificial intelligence (AI) can redefine education? Until now, AI has mainly supported existing practices, like automated grading or efficiencies in processes. But AI has the potential to create entirely new learning environments and redefine the roles of educators, learners, and institutions.
This workshop invites you to develop innovative teaching approaches that leverage AI as a catalyst for profound change in education. You will gain a deeper understanding of AI's transformative potential as well as brainstorming concepts that push beyond traditional methods. Join us for a short deep dive into the future of education.
How might AI shape the future of education? So far, AI and learning analytics in higher education has often focused on optimizing the existing practices. But it might do so much more. As Bozkurt et al. write in their ‘Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI’:
“We must rethink the very nature of education, teaching, learning, and assessment in light of GenAI. GenAI could provide opportunities to move beyond a deterministic view of knowledge if, rather than expecting students to provide 'right answers', the focus shifts to the learning process, where GenAI may support personalized educational experiences.”
This is also changing the role of universities, which are confronted with new questions about the role of education, their authority over the education they provide, the value of degrees and an increasingly rapid pace of technological change.
In this workshop, you will explore the transformative potential of AI in higher education. You will work together to explore the impact of AI as a catalyst for change in education. The workshop consciously opens spaces to think outside the box, while remaining practical and useful.
Are you a student, educator, IT manager, or educational leader interested in shaping AI in education and open for new ideas? Then this session is for you.
Project Manager/adviseur AI in Education voor SURF en Npuls
Johannes Schleiss is Program Manager for AI and Education at SURF, the ict cooperative of education and research in the Netherlands, and works on Insight and Strategy around AI and Data at Npuls. Prior to that, he completed his PhD in AI and Education at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Magdeburg University, where he coordinated the development of the new cooperative study program AI Engineering and worked on transformative future scenarios for education.