La revista Educause Review porta un interessant article titulat The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future que tracta de possible paper del professorat university en futur on la IA hi sigui activa i present, tal com diu al seu resum:
In the age of AI, the true future of higher education lies not in replacing faculty but in freeing them to do what only humans can—build meaningful relationships, cultivate wisdom, and guide students through the ethical and intellectual challenges machines cannot navigate.
Per exemple, diu que la IA farà encara més rellevant el “flipped learning”:
The flipped classroom model, popular since around 2010, pioneered by educators such as Harvard physicist Eric Mazur, already moves the delivery of content outside the classroom, transforming class time into a forum for higher-order cognitive work, collaborative problem-solving, Socratic debate, and real-time coaching.Footnote4 AI makes the flipped model dramatically more powerful. A genius TA can generate robust personalized learning plans and a granular analysis on each student’s progress. Most importantly, class time can become fully human time, with laptops closed and technology present only as the instructor chooses, and classrooms can become spaces reserved for being fully present with one another.
Hi ha tres aspectes a considerar, en partcular
Faculty must learn to work with AI teaching assistants—shaping how these agents interact with students, directing them toward specific learning goals, and knowing when to override or supplement the machine’s recommendations
I tal com diguem a vegades que una societat amb més cultura (científica) també és més democràtica, l’article diu que
The age of AI does not diminish the faculty member’s role; it expands and elevates it. Higher education becomes one of the last social institutions capable of cultivating the habits of mind a democracy requires. Faculty must serve as specialists in human judgment, ethical reasoning, and the cultivation of discernment—helping students weigh competing truths, evaluate evidence in context, and recognize the moral stakes embedded in every technological advance. In this future, the value of colleges and universities is secured not by their ability to compete with AI on speed or at scale, but by their unwavering commitment to what the machine can never replicate: the human work of generating, governing, and contextualizing knowledge to advance a just and flourishing society. The age of AI calls for reclaiming an elevated role for higher education institutions and a commensurate elevation of the faculty who make that role possible.
Per rumiar-hi.