Technology & Education
How should universities teach, assess, and build knowledge when AI systems are becoming part of everyday intellectual work?
I serve as Assistant Dean for Technology and Education in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University.
My work in this role concerns how the College approaches technology and AI in curriculum and teaching. The goal is to make better judgments about where these systems help learning, where they weaken it, and what students need to understand about AI beyond how to use a particular tool.
AI, Curriculum & Teaching
Generative and agentic AI raise practical questions for every field in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. They also raise questions about authorship, evidence, and judgment. Those questions belong throughout the curriculum.
Where does AI improve learning?
Some uses can make comparison, iteration, feedback, or exploration more productive. Others replace the difficult work through which learning happens. Which case applies depends on the learning objective.
What should students understand?
Competence with AI goes well past prompting. Students need ways to assess evidence, recognize limitations, understand how systems shape communication, and decide when their use is appropriate.
How should teaching and assessment change?
Faculty need room to experiment responsibly while preserving clear academic standards. Assessment should make reasoning, process, and disciplinary judgment visible, even when AI is part of the work.
Why the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Matter
Humanities, arts, and social-science expertise belongs at the center of AI education. Questions about language, persuasion, identity, and social consequence shape how these systems are designed and used.
My own research in Human–AI Communication and embodied interaction informs this work. It keeps the focus on how people actually understand and respond to intelligent systems.
Contact
For conversations about AI in higher education, curriculum, or assessment, use the address in the contact section and follow the instructions there. For the lab’s research, see the Embodied Dynamics Lab; for publications, the research overview.