AI can help with content generation or scaffolding, but teaching is still a bidirectional feedback process.
When the model can’t adapt to misunderstanding or context, students immediately feel the gap. It’s a UX failure more than a “should AI be allowed” issue
Content often already exists and depending on the course not much effort is needed to adapt it to next year. Feedback and teaching is what hard and time consuming. Thus we will see the hard part being replaced first. Grading and exams are hard? Let's automate it. Lecturing is hard? Let's narrate text by a program. Etc.
Meanwhile laying off "unneeded" teachers an getting hooked on the enterprise LLM subs. After these borderline bankrupt LLM corpos will raise prices several times universities will be paying even more while struggling with limited staff. This will translate into admin pressure on the teachers to automate more and more and more.
Understanding before application are two different steps.
The issues you're outlining can be solved by arranging technology to go through a process to satisfy the above.
Still, instruction, and instructors aren't really needing to be replaced, it's the silent elephant in the room that is rarely talked about that hopefully considers evolving.
Agreed, if teaching really was not bi-directional than there is zero reason for there to actually be a teacher in the first place when it could just be a book.
There are some bad teachers where it is not bidirectional for sure. But to claim it isn't (or at least is not supposed to be)... is wild
Teaching will get to evolve when the subject matter is changing faster than the delivery mechanisms.
Where the subject matter doesn't change as quickly.. might be in for some trouble.
This article is kind of strange. I would title it "Digitally and AI illiterate institution attempts to deliver course that looked impressive and amazing to them." Students do have standards and students baseline digital literacy passed by institutions a long, long time ago.
I worked two decades in industry. Worked at megacorps, in games, at startups, and co-founded a successful company. I was pretty good at what I did. Not the best, but pretty good.
And then I got humbled by trying to teach.
It's a completely different skill. It's the hardest, most rewarding job I've ever had.
So when I hear this line, I think, "Try it. Try to be a good teacher and see how well you do." Because I thought I'd be a good teacher, too... until I tried it. 7 years in and I'm still working my ass off trying to improve, and I now have enough skill to know that I have a long way to go.
