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CRAFTing the Future: How Universities Can Navigate AI Adoption

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CRAFTing the Future: How Universities Can Navigate AI Adoption

Generative AI is a global challenge for universities, making it essential to look beyond our own borders. How are universities in different countries adapting their strategies? What frameworks and maturity models guide them? For this article, we talked with Danny Liu and Simon Bates, the authors of the CRAFT framework, to understand how their model can help universities navigate AI adoption.

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Jens Tobor, Theresa Sommer
25.03.26
Decorative image with text overlay: CRAFTing the Future. How Universities Can Navigate AI Adoption. A blog article by Jens Tobor and Theresa Sommer.

AI and the Paradigm Shift in Education: From Fear to Opportunity

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AI and the Paradigm Shift in Education: From Fear to Opportunity

The education sector is undergoing a paradigm shift driven by artificial intelligence (AI). In this blog article, Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, considers the implications of this shift for the future of academia. Drawing on his long-standing expertise and his university’s digital transformation initiatives, he takes a step back to consider the broader implications of AI-driven change.

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Steve Joordens
30.06.25
Picture with an abstract graphic showing a student and the word „A I“. Under that the text: AI and the Paradigm Shift in Education: From Fear to Opportunity. A blog article by Steve Joordens.

Student use of AI tools in everyday university life: continuities and changes

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Student use of AI tools in everyday university life: continuities and changes

Unfortunately, the student perspective is often neglected in the discussion about the use of AI tools at universities. But do students even want to use ChatGPT? What opportunities and risks do they see in the use of generative AI? Last winter, Timucin Cicek, Prof. Dr. Tobias Seidl and Prof. Cornelia Vonhof from Stuttgart Media University published key findings from a student survey on the use of AI tools in the HFD blog post "Hey ChatGPT, can you help me?". Now they continue with surprising answers to the question of what continuities and changes they observed.

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Seidl, Cornelia Vonhof
09.09.24

“Extremely helpful input and exchange” Event report on the AI networking event on 22.08.2024

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“Extremely helpful input and exchange” Event report on the AI networking event on 22.08.2024

At the HFD's AI networking event on August 22, 2024, around 170 participants from universities across Germany, Austria and Switzerland exchanged views on generative AI in higher education. A look back and a look ahead.

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Sebastian Horndasch, Jens Tobor
04.09.24

ChatGPT and Co. in university teaching – perspectives from students and teachers

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ChatGPT and Co. in university teaching – perspectives from students and teachers

The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has led to the wider use of artificial intelligence (AI) reaching into the mainstream. AI tools have long since found their way into colleges and universities. But how do students and teachers actually view this change? What are the opportunities and challenges of using AI tools in university teaching? Lukas Erle, Thomas Hoss and Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler (Department of Human Factors & Gender Studies at the Institute of Computer Science at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences in Bottrop) put these and other questions to students and teachers at various German colleges and universities.

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Lukas Erle, Sabrina Eimler
09.07.24

The provision of generative AI in universities: What is possible and what is desirable?

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The provision of generative AI in universities: What is possible and what is desirable?

German universities are facing the challenge of making tools based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) accessible for research, teaching and administration. The focus is currently on the accessibility of commercially available tools such as ChatGPT. However, the issue of non-commercial, open source-based solutions is also increasingly coming to the fore in the discussions. What options are there, what are the advantages and disadvantages and what role does cross-university cooperation play here?

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Dr. Peter Salden, Jonas Leschke, Dr. habil. Malte Persike
28.02.24
In der oberen Bildhälfte sind zu dekorativen Zwecken Server abgebildet. Titel des Blogbeitrags: "DIE BEREITSTELLUNG GENERATIVER KI IN HOCHSCHULEN: WAS IST MÖGLICH UND WAS WÜNSCHENSWERT?" Untertitel: Ein

AI transforming higher education? How a chatbot might bring the change we’ve all been waiting for

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AI transforming higher education? How a chatbot might bring the change we’ve all been waiting for

How will artificial intelligence affect our academic culture? Recent debates about GPT-3 raised concerns about AI possibly outpacing well-known forms of publication and assessment. In our Blog, Manuel Dolderer, Co-Founder and President at CODE University of Applied Sciences, pleads for new learning environments that embrace and shape technological progress. As universities, it is our job […]

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Manuel Dolderer
19.12.22
Titelbild zum Blogbeitrag auf Englisch: AI transforming higher education? How a chatbot might bring the change we’ve all been waiting for. Logo: Hochschulforum Digitalisierung

Can AI revolutionise higher education? An interview with Claudia de Witt

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Can AI revolutionise higher education? An interview with Claudia de Witt

Artificial intelligence in higher education raises great expectations for improved quality of teaching and learning. As a professor of educational theory and media pedagogy at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Claudia de Witt researches methods and applications of AI in studying, teaching and further education. In an interview with Prof. de Witt, Lavinia Ionica, program manager […]

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Lavinia Ionica, Prof. Claudia De Witt
20.01.21
Bild: "Data has a better Idea"

The Slinking Process of Digitisation of Higher Education Institutions

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The Slinking Process of Digitisation of Higher Education Institutions

“Without the universities themselves having noticed it, they have become data- and software-driven institutions. This means that in many areas they use complex software systems in which data is generated on a large scale without these data (apart from research) being subjected to an evaluation.” Dr Hubertus Neuhausen, Director of the University and City Library […]

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Dr. Hubertus Neuhausen
05.12.19

Digital Changemakers: Full of Ideas and Zest for Action — Kick-Off of the New Year of the Student Future AG

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Digital Changemakers: Full of Ideas and Zest for Action — Kick-Off of the New Year of the Student Future AG

At the beginning of the new academic year, three ad-hoc working groups will again be starting in the Higher Education Forum – one of them this time again being the Studentische Zukunfts-AG “DigitalChangeMaker“. While the last year’s class of digitisation enthusiasts recently published their thesis paper on the digitisation of universities from a student perspective […]

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René Rahrt
08.11.19
The twelve new DigitalChangeMakers, together with their AG coordinator Yasmin Djabarian and Oliver Janoschka, head of the office of the Stifterverband, are looking forward to future cooperation.
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