How to Design and Deliver Courses for Higher Education in the AI Era?

Technological breakthroughs in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) are challenging education. We argue that higher education will only cope with the era of AI when we reduce the reliance on textbooks and memorization, and take deliberate steps to integrate AI into the design and delivery of courses and exams. This chapter presents some strategies for this based on Delors report (Delors, Learning, the treasure within: Report to UNESCO of the international commission on education for the twenty-first century. Unesco Publication, 1996) on education. We demonstrate how we used these strategies in multiple courses in cybersecurity, programming, English language teaching, and art. As for course delivery, we automated the Socratic teaching approach by building a dedicated chatbot called the AI Socrates Chatbot. We employed this chatbot in our classes to offer personalized learning experiences for our students. To evaluate the proposed instructional design, we analyzed data from seven exams in which our students were allowed to use ChatGPT during the exam. The findings indicate that students’ performance was not correlated with the level and way they used ChatGPT to answer the exam questions.