{"id":20357,"date":"2023-05-22T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.munich-business-school.de\/insights\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:50:38","slug":"mbs-teaching-day-2023-preparing-university-teaching-for-the-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munich-business-school.de\/insights\/en\/2023\/mbs-teaching-day-2023-preparing-university-teaching-for-the-digital-future\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS Teaching Day 2023: Preparing University Teaching for the Digital Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The motto for the MBS Teaching Day 2023 was \u201cDigital Technologies in University Teaching\u201d. MBS teaching staff had the opportunity to take various training workshops on topics such as ChatGPT, teaching videos, Moodle and simulations. And, of course, the workshops were accompanied by an enjoyable cultural program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the successful inaugural event last year<\/strong><\/a>, MBS teaching staff \u2013 including both permanent and freelance staff \u2013 again had an opportunity to discuss ideas on current issues in teaching, share their own experiences and inspire each other to forge new paths in teaching at MBS Teaching Day 2023. The event was squarely focused on digitalization \u2013 a crucial topic with impacts extending to the university sector. The aim was to provide information on potential opportunities to make sensible, practical and productive use of digital technologies, and to highlight new forms of academic learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to discussing teaching and digitalization, ChatGPT is the word on everyone\u2019s lips right now. This natural language processing model has certainly split opinion: while some see opportunities, others are predicting \u201cthe end of traditional teaching\u201d and asking how teachers will be able to distinguish between students\u2019 own work and output from artificial intelligence-based tools in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The MBS Teaching Day 2023 obviously had to address this red-hot issue. At the start of the afternoon session, Prof. Dr. Markus Westner<\/strong><\/a>, a guest at the event from OTH Regensburg, took the MBS Teaching Day participants on a journey into the world of AI in a keynote speech entitled: \u201cChatGPT \u2013 the end of teaching as we know it?\u201d. A Professor of Business Informatics, Westner explained what ChatGPT is \u2013 \u201ca pocket calculator for text\u201d \u2013 before demonstrating how it works and encouraging MBS teaching staff to trial the tool in different use cases in the university context. Working in groups, the teaching staff used ChatGPT to write emails, draft an examination paper including questions, answers and corrections, produce module descriptions and summarize texts. Experiences varied and it became clear that ChatGPT is more suitable for some tasks \u2013 such as brainstorming \u2013 than for others \u2013 such as research. Ultimately, it will be up to each individual staff member to decide whether to integrate artificial intelligence in their teaching and for personal use. However, the keynote speech also made clear that there will be no getting around the topic in future and it is vital to understand, at the very least, how ChatGPT works and the risks it poses but also the potential benefits of using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the keynote speech, the MBS Teaching Day participants were free to choose between four different workshops depending on their interest and the relevance to their work, specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n