LLMs and education research, a summerdream

Artificial intelligence is a field which in recent years has had an exponential growth, both in the academic theatre and in the presence of our everyday life. 

An example of a Large Language Models (LLMs) is Open AI’s Chat GPT, which almost everyone in society has heard of or encountered in some form or another. As of today, it is suspected that these models can have a huge number of applications, and one which we have looked at during this summer-project is how they can be applied to the field of teaching.

In this presentation we will explain what we did during the project, our results and insights gained from researching how to utilize LLMs in the pedagogical scene, and some examples of how to integrate LLMs into exercises.

Picture of summer students

Photo: Tone Skramstad

Read more about this summer project (in Norwegian). 

Speakers: 

Alan Macgillivray Harkness is currently a student at both OsloMet and the University of Oslo, aiming to become a mathematics teacher. He has a deep interest in the impact of digitalization on education, particularly how artificial intelligence and large language models like GPT can transform teaching methods in the sciences. Through his exploration in the summer project, he seeks to find innovative ways to enhance the learning experience and streamline education.

Morten Tryti Berg is a master's student in the section for theoretical physics at the University of Oslo. Apart from his academic pursuits, he also enjoys communicating physics and technology. He took his first AI course in the fall of 2021 and has been passionate about the subject ever since. Therefore, he found it incredibly exciting to explore the interaction between AI and communication, as they did over the summer.

We will serve refreshments, coffee and tea. Welcome! 

The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE

The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.

The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.

Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.

Published Aug. 21, 2024 5:21 PM - Last modified Aug. 22, 2024 3:48 PM