Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts

76 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2024

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Ethan R. Mollick

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School

Lilach Mollick

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School

Date Written: April 22, 2024

Abstract

This paper explores how instructors can leverage generative AI to create personalized learning experiences for students that transform teaching and learning. We present a range of AI-based exercises that enable novel forms of practice and application including simulations, mentoring, coaching, and co-creation. For each type of exercise, we provide prompts that instructors can customize, along with guidance on classroom implementation, assessment, and risks to consider. We also provide blueprints, prompts that help instructors create their own original prompts. Instructors can leverage their content and pedagogical expertise to design these experiences, putting them in the role of builders and innovators. We argue that this instructor-driven approach has the potential to democratize the development of educational technology by enabling individual instructors to create AI exercises and tools tailored to their students' needs. While the exercises in this paper are a starting point, not a definitive solutions, they demonstrate AI's potential to expand what is possible in teaching and learning.

Keywords: AI, LLM, education, prompts

Suggested Citation

Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts (April 22, 2024). The Wharton School Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4802463 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4802463

Ethan R. Mollick (Contact Author)

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School ( email )

The Wharton School
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370
United States

Lilach Mollick

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School ( email )

3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365
United States

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