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AI Co-designer shortlisted for the QS Reimagine Education Awards in 2024 and 2025.
Courses increasingly need to prepare students for professions that are themselves being reshaped by AI. That requires universities to rethink
not only what they teach, but also how learning is structured and assessed.
point, refine generated content through prompting and critically assess whether AI-produced recommendations were suitable for their teaching. This approach is particularly significant as universities across Asia respond to changing student expectations, emerging technologies and growing pressure to keep academic programmes relevant.
AI can suggest how a course should work. The academic must still decide whether it will help students learn. HKUST's emphasis on reflection and evaluation recognises this distinction. The university's October workshop also encouraged lecturers to use their own course materials as a starting
AI-assisted course design could become one part of that process, provided institutions continue to prioritise academic oversight, evidence-based teaching and student outcomes. For HKUST, the current initiative is an opportunity to explore how human expertise and artificial intelligence can work together in curriculum development. Whether platforms like AI Co-designer become standard tools across higher education remains to be seen. Their longer-term value will depend on whether they genuinely improve teaching quality, support lecturers and lead to better learning experiences. What is already clear is that the AI conversation in universities is moving beyond students and their assignments. The next chapter may be written in the course plans themselves.
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