Goals and Desired Outcomes

• Achieving a better understanding of how to create a learning assistant using LLMs with a focus on how such an assistant affects and conditions students' learning opportunities and teachers' teaching repertoires.

• Helping students utilize such technology to enhance their learning.

• Encouraging students to develop critical reflection around using such technology to enhance their learning.

• Supporting experience exchange across UiO faculties and increasing the usefulness of such exchanges, for instance, using this project as a basis for creating similar learning assistants in other subjects.

Timeline 

The project consists of three phases:

• Fall semester 2024: Development and testing of prototypes and possible improvements.

• Spring semester and fall semester 2025: Integration of the lear

  ning assistant in regular teaching in two courses at the Faculty of Dentistry; course evaluation focusing on the use of the learning assistant.

• Fall semester 2025: Experience exchange and dissemination of results focused on enhanced teaching quality; activities focusing on 1) increasing transfer value across faculties and 2) competence building among teachers

Project members

Gerald Torgersen (project manager) and Monica Wicksell Torp from the OD faculty. Anna Mavroudi and IDEA  centre from the UV Faculty

Funding 

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by SK-ITU - Strategic Coordination Group for IT in Education for this work.