Nordic AI-BEST 3: Nordic Initiative on AI in Business, Economics and Social Science Teaching

The Nordic Initiative on AI in Business, Economics, and Social Sciences Teaching
(Nordic AI-BEST) joins together teachers from Aalborg University, Denmark, Gothenburg University, Sweden, The Norwegian School of Economics, Norway, and Tampere University, Finland, in the development of novel teaching and assessment methods levering AI technology for higher education. The team consists of 13 teachers, who combine teaching experience, technical knowledge of AI, didactic expertise, and research experience on the effect of AI on jobs in developing novel teaching and assessment methods to accomplish five goals
1) Exploit the strengths of AI to attain existing learning objectives for students. 2) Add new learning outcomes to curricula emphasizing students’ knowledge, skills, and competencies for working with AI. 3) Update higher education assessment methods to a time when AI makes traditional assessment methods obsolete. 4) Examine the institutional factors contributing (or hindering) towards the adoption of AI in teaching, and 5) Reflections on potential fundamental shifts in higher business education.

Attaining these five goals contributes to higher education evolving alongside technology to leverage its benefits in teaching and ensure that students and teachers are prepared for the novel jobs and tasks that new technology brings.
The methods developed in the project will be applied in teaching at the participating teachers’ home institutions. Both teachers and students will evaluate the experience built into the application, and the results are made publicly available in an open-access final report, in a peer-reviewed publication, and continuously disseminated during the project in news articles (op eds) from the participating institutions.