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We are delighted that our new colleague, Julia Schander, joined the department as Quality Management Officer for Teaching and Learning on 1 April 2025, completing our team.
Prof. Dr Anja Voss, Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Digitalisation (left), and Urte Böhm, Head of the Department of Quality Management in Teaching and Learning (right), warmly welcomed Julia Schander (centre) to ASH Berlin and to the team.
We look forward to a productive collaboration and wish Julia Schander a great start!
More information about the University Didactics Workshop Discussions can be found on the page of the University Didactics and Innovation Unit (page opens in new window, German language).
The following training courses on the topic of AI in teaching and learning will be offered to lecturers at ASH Berlin in the summer semester 2025:
ASH AI 2: Prompts and Bots
Deepening knowledge of AI applications and developing programme-specific prompts (for beginners and advanced users)
Date: 25 June 2025, 13:30–16:00 (online)
This advanced training course provides lecturers with in-depth knowledge of effective prompt engineering and its application in academic and administrative contexts. A further focus is on working with specialised chatbots, for example as virtual teaching assistants or advisory bots for students. Practice-oriented exercises and case studies will support participants in applying what they learn to their own professional context.
Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to…
- develop, structure, and evaluate advanced prompts and prompt chains for text and analytical tasks;
- use “priming” and system prompts to create effective strategies for improving AI-generated outputs;
- implement and adapt chatbots as virtual assistant systems in teaching and advising, and assess their potential;
- independently design and plan programme-specific chatbots;
- reflect on institutional frameworks for using AI in their own practice (e.g. ASH AI Guidelines, EU AI Act).
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ASH AI 3: Assessment and AI
Designing competency-based assessments with AI integration; hands-on practice with the new AI declaration of independent work (for advanced users)
Three dates available:
21 May, 4 June or 2 July 2025, each from 10:00–12:30 (online)
This advanced training course provides lecturers with in-depth knowledge of effective prompt engineering and its application in academic and administrative contexts. A further focus is on working with specialised chatbots, for example as virtual teaching assistants or advisory bots for students. Practice-oriented exercises and case studies will support participants in applying what they learn to their own professional context.
Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to…
- outline the general challenges and opportunities of generative AI in relation to existing and new assessment formats;
- reflect on the ethical, legal, and technical implications of using AI in assessment processes;
- differentiate between the various uses of generative AI in written assessment formats and evaluate them in terms of their own assessment design;
- generate ideas for integrating generative AI into their own assessment formats;
- formulate, modify, and apply system prompts for assessment-relevant contexts;
- interpret and apply the ASH Berlin AI declaration of independent work in their own assessment design.
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All training sessions will take place online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided via Moodle upon registration. More detailed information on each course can be found both on Moodle and further below in this message. Each session is limited to 20 participants, so early registration is recommended.
Register via: https://moodle.ash-berlin.eu/course/view.php?id=17729#section-1
You can request the enrolment key from Dr Christoph Balzar.
For any questions about the courses, feel free to contact Dr Balzar directly.
Email:balzar@ash-berlin.eu
Urte Böhm and Franziska Müller have developed a comprehensive concept for a flexible, diversity-oriented and inclusive learning architecture for seminar rooms and self-study spaces in the new extension building at ASH Berlin.
Learn more about Learning Architecture (Page opens in new window, German language)
