Awareness raising session ethics of AI and data within syllabi: teaching perspective
Case report: Germany
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2025-08-29
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CERN
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English
German
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awareness raising session
Ethics of AI
syllabi
case report
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This document reports on one so-called “Awareness Raising Session” that was conducted as part of the Erasmus+ project “Anchoring Ethical Technology (AI and Data) usage in the Education Practice (ETH-TECH)” and aimed at gathering university lecturers’ views on their universities’ syllabi’s coverage of ethical perspectives on (education) technologies.
The report describes an online session with five higher education teachers from a medium-sized university in Northern Germany, all teaching in a Bachelor’s and Master’s program in Education Science. The session aimed to reflect on the presence and role of ethical perspectives on AI in the university’s syllabi. Participants discussed how AI and ethics are addressed in their own teaching practices, compared these to what is defined in official module handbooks, and explored challenges in implementing the EU ethical guidelines on AI in education. A major finding of the session was the discrepancy between official documents, which often do not mention AI at all, and teaching practices, through which the participants integrate (Ed)Tech ethics into their courses in a variety of ways. The discussion further produced concrete suggestions for improving syllabi and highlighted questions about curriculum structures, teacher autonomy, and the practical use of ethical guidelines. These insights will contribute to the development of the ETH-TECH project’s next steps.
The report describes an online session with five higher education teachers from a medium-sized university in Northern Germany, all teaching in a Bachelor’s and Master’s program in Education Science. The session aimed to reflect on the presence and role of ethical perspectives on AI in the university’s syllabi. Participants discussed how AI and ethics are addressed in their own teaching practices, compared these to what is defined in official module handbooks, and explored challenges in implementing the EU ethical guidelines on AI in education. A major finding of the session was the discrepancy between official documents, which often do not mention AI at all, and teaching practices, through which the participants integrate (Ed)Tech ethics into their courses in a variety of ways. The discussion further produced concrete suggestions for improving syllabi and highlighted questions about curriculum structures, teacher autonomy, and the practical use of ethical guidelines. These insights will contribute to the development of the ETH-TECH project’s next steps.
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Hartong, S., Sander, I., & Meinert, S. (2025). Awareness Raising Sessions about the Ethics of AI and Data within Syllabi: Teachers’ Perspectives. Case Report: Germany. Project Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16992300
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