The university budgets of universities across the country have been broken. Overall income and accumulated fiscal support appear to be declining for a variety of reasons.
New funding policies, administrative restructuring of the Ministry of Education, such as the country’s lean fiscal period, reduced focus on higher education, less degree requirements for employers hiring entry-level positions, and the impact of AI will all unite to reduce incoming students’ profiles, tuition income and grants. As a result, they will kill new plans unless they show promise to reduce costs immediately and generate new revenue.
The cost of developing, designing and teaching courses is often primarily dependent on the staff costs. Long-term subordinate courses at certain universities may be taught by supervised teaching assistants or assistant teachers whose salary is less than tenured teachers. However, we are now facing powerful technologies that require little additional investment and can immediately bring positive opportunities. Every university will soon have to determine to what extent AI can design and deliver courses and under what supervision and supervision.
However, few of us seem to realize that today’s technology is free to use. Over the past three years, the tsunami of new and improved AI technologies has flooded us so much that many in academia can’t keep up.
A good example is a fast-scaling and enhanced AI application. We know them with Gemini, Chatgpt, Claude and some other names we tried in 2023 or 2024. Although hallucinations can still happen, this changes to a large extent, which is why it is a good habit to compare tips submitted on multiple sites, which is what is suggested in this column.
AI is now able to teach higher education in a highly sophisticated way. With a thoughtful, detailed tip, it is able to implement most proven teaching methods, many of which our teaching teachers do not know. It allows for a deeper look at topics with the latest data than many faculty use. It can insert, infer and pursue its statistical conclusions, thus revealing unexpected results. In due course, it can be friendly, supportive, patient, and also challenging.
My point is that today’s tips can be the most powerful teaching tool that can consistently create a powerful, engaging learning environment. It can even provide materials through various pedagogical methods. Well written, detailed tips available with many of our teaching assistants, part-time teachers and yes, yes, yes, full-time faculty members without in-depth training in effective pedagogy and current practice.
Let’s test one of these techniques now!
The following is shared by the “AI with AI” newsletter, which provides online tutors with teachers who use a variety of time-tested techniques and pedagogy to teach students. The first step starts with a prompt, although not a short step. Interactive Learning Tutor is a virtual teacher running on leading Frontier AI application models (Gemini, Chatgpt, and Claude). The most interesting thing is not only the wide range of topics it is ready to deliver, but also the scope of teaching that can be achieved at the request of the learner. Therefore, learners can choose their pedagogy rather than the choice of teaching methods by designers and lecturers.
“The prompt turns AI into a dual-link system that first helps learners choose the most effective learning skills and then uses these selected methods to translate into real-time instruction. In Navigator mode, the system details what users want to learn, and how they like to learn, and then introduces the limitations of each method from a detailed five evidence-based approach. Examples related to the user’s topic also show that learning prototypes, outlining pitfalls and fixes, creates integrated action plans, and provides tools such as reflection prompts, comparison tables, and pathway matrices to help learners see their options clearly.”
This is a highly qualified virtual teaching assistant who is eager and ready to take on the tasks of teaching an individual online tutorial or in class. Imagine 30 students with initial orientations of about a week, running this app to achieve specified learning outcomes in an engaging and interactive way. The material provided in a single tutorial can be enhanced by supplemental reading, reference material, and a syllabus for regular evaluation, resulting in a final project or paper submitted by a group in the class, respectively. Timely and application takes over the most important role of participating and coaching students in ways that prove to be successful.
So let’s do a road test on this! The first step is to copy the 1,112-word prompt
Gemini replied: “This is a great topic! Bluegrass music has a rich history and a vibrant culture. We can definitely break its development, instrumental and cultural influence.” Gemini continued to write,
Now, to help me suggest the best way to learn, can you tell me some of the knowledge you like to learn? For example, when you try to learn about new things, do you find it helpful:
- Discuss and ask many questions?
- Organize information visually, maybe use schedules or charts?
- Listen to examples (such as different songs) and connect them back to these concepts?
- Try explaining it to others to make sure you have it in hand?
Gemini also provides personalized action plans to develop a schedule.
Comprehensive Action Plan
- Take action immediately (first 1-2 hours): Use the Socrates method to generate a list of basic questions about bluegrass. Use double coding to create a simple schedule of major events (e.g., Bill Monroe forms the Bluegrass Boy, Earl Scruggs Joins, Newport Folk Festival).
- Medium-term action (week 1): Use storytelling methods to weave these schedule events into narratives about the birth of the genre. Choose a specific concept (e.g., “the sound of high loneliness”) and use Feynman techniques to explain it in your own words.
- Long-term action (continued): Continue to build a visual library (double encoding) using instrument maps and area maps. As you learn more, constantly refine your core story (storytelling) and test your understanding of complex sub-themes (Feynman Technique).
Gemini share more details in a tabular format to ensure learners understand different approaches. Then, it gives me learners a chance to confirm that I want to incorporate these patterns. Then we left and ran.
This format appears to be a prototype of the time certificate program, requiring too many plans in which insufficient teachers and other time or finances may not allow full design and teaching staffing. Carefully monitor each student by asking them to share communication with the app. Stay alert to protect learners’ FERPA rights. Use safe methods for measurement and other evaluations. The results were compared with other categories of classes and feedback from participating learners were collected. Modify the original tips to meet your needs and refine the results for the next product.
