Beyond GPT-UiO: Which AI tools should we use in our teaching?

Since AI chatbots were first released, new ways of using large language models have been developed, like AI agents and integrated coding tools. AI chatbots themselves have also changed enormously, and new models are constantly being released to the public as private companies compete to offer the very best models. 

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Karl Henrik Fredly

Are we as researchers and educators keeping up with these developemnts? And are we holding our students back by limiting them to only using free, UiO-approved tools? 

In this talk I will present a quick overview of the LLM-based tools currently avaliable and how they can impact student learning. I will also discuss how powerful, expensive and non-UiO approved tools might give some students an advantage over others, and what we can do about it.

Karl Henrik Fredly is Doctoral Research Fellow at CCSE. 

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 usually 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 Nov. 21, 2025 4:02 PM - Last modified Nov. 27, 2025 3:57 PM