I don't envy educators right now.

AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in though, and it's still extremely unclear what effective teaching with these tools looks like.

The worst part is that the evaluation loop is measured in multiple years! If you start trying some new education mechanism today you won't get a robust idea of how well it works until your current cohort graduate in 3-6 years time.

Students effectively all become guinea pigs for untested new ways of learning and teaching.

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raegis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> I don't envy educators right now.

I think we have a solution for the evaluation part: the overwhelming majority of a student's grade is computed from in-person assessments only. Some instructors allow repeats on exams as well.

The teaching part is as hard, but it has always been hard. The students you get one year are completely different the next year, for various reasons. As long as you have competent administrators, all is good--this is what we sign up for.

	▲	rajay99 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The solution is closed notes assessment, without any electronics used. If tests evaluate understanding is up for debate. But that is what we switched to in the sciences. Universities are going to have a reckoning moment, as most degrees 1) are not economically viable and 2) don't make sense to be taught in the current mode of instruction.
	▲	simonw 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The challenge there is scale. Most educational establishments aren't staffed for in-person assessments. Rearranging around that is a very expensive change to make. (Apparently German and Austrian universities already have a strong culture of oral assessment, so they're ahead of the pack.)