Designing Assignments for University Students in the Age of AI: Examples from Business Finance Education

Abstract

One of the key details of the age of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as ChatGPT, is how to create efficient and effective assignments for university students from now on. This paper proposes the reconsideration of usual in-class and out-of-class tasks in the context of the 4C model of learning. Due to the presence of AI those types of assignments will likely become more prominent in higher education that require the 4C: creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity skills. This paper aims to contribute to the wide discussions of the subject by providing some examples: information problem tasks (tasks with incomplete, overflowing, misleading information), problems to find and to structure (one-sentence case studies/”one liners”), oral interpretations of analyses and solutions (video presentations and competitions), and hand-on experience (online, paper & pencil experiments)[i].

Keywords: higher education, artificial intelligence (AI), teaching methodology, 4C model of learning, in-class and out-of-class assignments

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-18-15

Publication date:June 30^th 2023

[i] The earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference of Researchers’ Day of Budapest Business School on May 18, 2023.