"We need to train our students for the professional world in which AI is going to play a transformative role."

The discussion on the application of artificial intelligence at teaching and research was part of the University's 7th Innova Forum, organized by the Planning and Improvement Service at teaching, which brought together more than 400 faculty and professionals from the academic center at the University Museum theater. "We need to train our students for the professional world in which AI is going to play a transformative role." Professor of School of Philosophy and Letters, Alejandro Néstor García did not doubt the importance of training in artificial intelligence and its applications for both students and teachers. Alejandro Néstor García participated in the roundtable accompanied by the director of the University's Artificial Intelligence Service, Isabel Iribarbar, who was also present. Library Services Isabel Iribarren. Along with the opportunities, they also discussed the risks involved in the misuse of this technology. 

"The generalization of the use of AI in the field educational is causing, from our point of view, an alteration in the order of the phases of information literacy," said Isabel Iribarren. The director of the Library Services referred to the difficulties in locating and citing the origin of the information obtained by AI, to favor what they call the reproducibility of science; and also to how the ability of AI to generate a text from scratch can have biases and reduce the capacity for critical thinking or creativity of users.

Isabel Iribarren advocated training to promote the ethical use of AI and generate a guide of good practices, in addition to monitoring tools to detect AI-generated texts.

"Students have hitherto unknown resources to enhance their learning, but there are also risks," confirmed Alejandro Néstor García, while highlighting the possibilities offered by technology. "One of the most promising opportunities offered by these new tools is that the teacher has time to develop critical, creative thinking skills in his students, to teach them to analyze information, to formulate questions and to think innovatively," he added. 

According to the professor, new strategies of assessment and learning are imposed. "AI will not replace the exam to evaluate the result but it will make possible the employment of new forms of assessment and beyond the result of the work of student (which has been able to generate it with AI without learning anything) other forms of assessment will gain prominence to check the learning achieved during the process based on competencies, projects, work in teams or oral presentations. "We must define objectives, methodologies and the tools that can accompany them," he concluded. 

The best innovation projects professor

The VII edition of the Innova Forum also hosted presentation to the educational community of the ".cross-cutting features". that define the students of the University of Navarra and that should be applied in the teaching of each degree program. They are: spirit of service, critical and creative thinking, honesty and integrity, communication, freedom and commitment. 

The workshop also hosted a new edition of the Innova awards for the best innovation projects professor. Philosophy On this occasion, the award for the best disruptive project went to teaching Cooperativa Diálogo at classroom where School professors Raquel Cascales and Rosa Fernández teach subject simultaneously. In the category for the best Transfer project , the award went to: Writing and Sustainability. Writing Center, led by María José Galluci, also a professor at School of Philosophy and Letters. The goal of the project is aimed at strengthening the writing skills of the students of Degree and Master's Degree.

The School Nursingwith the project Enfermeras gestoras en el siglo XXI: una teaching enfocada al development integral de sus competencias de la profesora Hildegart González, won the award for the best collaborative project . The project consisted of the redesign of the subjects management -Health Management and management Health Management and Legislation II, gathering information from different Schools in Spain; and the award voted by the audience was for: work international groups role of the business for a more sustainable world, promoted by Isabel Rodríguez Tejedo, professor of the School of Economics. Students participated in an international collaborative work in mixed teams with students from the universities of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), IPMI (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Dominican University (River Forest, USA). Each group analyzed real cases of economically, socially and environmentally sustainable enterprises and reflected on the role of business in society.