Program round 2
AI-proof assessment design: balancing integrity, curriculum alignment, and inclusivity in higher education
Karolien van Nunen, TU Delft
The rapid rise of AI is pushing educators to rethink assessment design, often with a strong focus on making assessments 'AI-proof'. But what happens when AI-proofness conflicts with other important principles of good assessment? In this session, this challenge will be explored through a practical case in which a written group paper in a BSc course was replaced with an oral presentation and examination. While this redesign addressed concerns about AI misuse, it also raised new questions about curriculum alignment, the assessment of writing skills, and inclusivity for students with different strengths and needs. Using the case as a starting point, strategies are identified for balancing AI resilience with programme learning outcomes, pedagogical coherence, and inclusivity.
Systems thinking and essential skills in engineering education: the development of the CLEAR project
Leonie Krab-Hüsken, Linlin Pei, Universiteit Twente
CLEAR (Chemistry Learning for Environmental Action and Responsibility) integrates systems thinking and sustainability into the University of Twente’s Chemical Science & Engineering bachelor programme. The approach combines essential skills development, sustainability-driven curriculum enhancement, and a supportive learning environment to enable students to analyse complex sustainability challenges. The initiative was awarded the first prize in the Nederlandse Onderwijspremie 2025 and offers a transferable model for embedding sustainability within engineering education.
Touch Grass: Outdoor learning as future-proof education in STEM
Phil Klahs, Maastricht University
Students in STEM currently face a dilemma of navigating new technological resources. Educators must balance the use of AI with continued practice in traditional research methodologies. This ICAB session will explore the intersection of technology and nature in a literal sense. We will talk about designing outdoor learning activities that are engaging for students, scalable for different group sizes, and place an emphasis on interacting with the real world. Technology will still be present in the forms of AI, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and general data management. We will talk about how careful selection of setting and the systems to study can benefit learning activities in almost any STEM field while teaching outside. Dr. Phil Klahs is a systematic botanist who specializes in the grass family Poaceae. For a portion of the workshop we are going outside.
A creative dialogue session about connecting head and heart in academic education (12.15 - 13.15 p.m.)
Liesbeth de Bakker, Universiteit Utrecht
Would you like to enter a conversation in a different way? Well then join our creative dialogue session called The Square, and this time we will talk about “Connecting head and heart in academic education”. Together with 15 colleagues you will reflect on a difficult, complex topic - a so-called socio-scientific issue – guided by placing objects, for instance a rope, a bottle or a handful of hay, in some sort of constellation on a floor measuring 3 by 3 meters. Liesbeth de Bakker will be your facilitator. The workshop is not focused on solving the contentious issue but rather on exploring what’s at stake here, what roles do factors or actors play, and what feelings pop up while talking about it with the group. This will help you to get insight into yourself and the perspectives of others. Be courageous and join this conversation with an open mind.
AI-Assisted Educational Tool Development
Greg Alpar, Radboud Universiteit
What if teachers could efficiently build classroom tools with very little programming skills by using generative AI and coding agents? Pedagogical and didactic tools could enrich their teaching. In this talk, I’ll share my hands-on experiences creating web-based tools and larger pedagogical systems with generative AI. After briefly exploring the tools and workflow together, we will discuss the potential and limitations of this technology in computer science education.
This session is part of the GenAIinCSEdu workshop series.
Redesign your curriculum for GenAI
Vincent Tijms, Universiteit van Amsterdam
GenAI is impacting education at every level, from teaching and learning to assessment and curriculum design. In the AI track of the Visible Learning Trajectories programme, teachers, students and management of degree programmes formulate a shared vision on how to adapt to GenAI and then take their first steps to act on it.
Normally delivered as a three-session track, this workshop offers a hands-on taste of the approach. In small groups, you'll explore real questions that degree programmes face when rethinking their curriculum for GenAI. You'll also get a live look at a purpose-built tool that supports the two-lane assessment approach.
You'll leave with a feel for the process and the kinds of conversations it can spark within your programme - with plenty of room for open exchange, different perspectives, and constructive debate.
