The purpose of this project is to promote the creation of a stable Teaching Innovation Group at the UAB, whose main objective is to analyse the possibilities and challenges of incorporating artificial intelligence into study programmes with a professionalising approach that fosters creative, ethical, and critical use among students. To achieve this aim, the project sets out the following specific objectives: (1) to reflect on the curricular integration of artificial intelligence oriented towards its use in professional contexts; (2) to propose interventions that enable innovation in teaching, including the creative and critical use of artificial intelligence for students’ future professional practice; and (3) to make visible teaching practices that incorporate the critical and creative use of artificial intelligence in university education.
The actions of the Teaching Innovation Group (GID) aim to improve the teaching–learning process through the integration of AI with a professionalising approach, addressing a gap identified in current training. Its impact is expected to be particularly visible in students’ satisfaction and perception, as they will see AI as a tool to enhance their learning and future professional practice. At the same time, the GID will offer teaching staff a space for support, training, and interdisciplinary reflection that will help reduce resistance, improve digital competences, and confidently address the incorporation of new technologies. Likewise, it will contribute to strengthening the relationship between students and lecturers, currently strained by the emergence of AI, by promoting a shared digital educational ecosystem.
At an institutional level, the GID aims to act as a catalyst for an educational ecosystem in which AI is used ethically, equitably, and in ways that are contextualised within the profession, fostering innovation and enhancing the university’s international projection. Although it prioritises digitalisation and technological innovation, the group will also influence the transformation of teaching, as well as inclusion and well-being, by promoting meaningful learning, contextualised activities, and critical awareness of AI biases. Overall, the GID seeks to contribute to making degree programmes more attractive, to promoting a conscious use of AI, to training teaching staff in digital competences, and to positioning the UAB as a benchmark in the professional application of artificial intelligence.
PR-IA will contribute to the creation of a shared vision and culture regarding the use of AI for professionalising purposes at the UAB, by making visible the existing knowledge generated through previous and ongoing projects, and by proposing a working methodology that enables sustained reflection on this topic.
Specifically, this GID will:
- Understand the value of AI in university education at the UAB, oriented towards the professionalisation of UAB graduates.
- Have systematised teaching and professional experiences regarding the use of AI for professionalising purposes and make them available to all UAB teaching staff.
- Provide cross-cutting guidelines for the curricular integration of AI for its use in professional contexts, which may become a hallmark of the UAB.
- Contribute to the UAB’s training proposals that include AI with a professionalising and innovative approach, grounded in a critical and creative perspective.
Promote teaching innovation projects, with institutional (OQD, Faculties) or international (Erasmus+) funding, that enable progress in both specific and cross‑cutting professional fields.