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What does ‘good teaching’ mean in the AI age?
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What does ‘good teaching’ mean in the AI age?

Jürgen Rudolph, Fiona Xiaofei Tang, Tania Aspland and Vanessa Stafford
Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, Vol.8(2)
2025
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Abstract

Good teaching in the AI era remains what it has always been: a willingness to do whatever helps students learn (Brookfield et al., 2023). In Teaching Well, Brookfield et al. (2023) elaborate a learning-centred pedagogy—classroom democratisation, critical thinking and reflection, and the ethical negotiation of power—that does not become obsolete when a new technology arrives. Yet the rise of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek) has provoked both exuberance and anxiety across higher education (Rudolph et al., 2025). Public discourse oscillates between ‘job-killer’ narratives and boosterish promises of frictionless productivity, and the higher education sector is not immune to either (Rudolph et al., 2023). Against this backdrop, we anchor our analysis in what Teaching Well articulates as good teaching and examine how its core commitments can be defended—and, where needed, critically recontextualised—in the AI age…

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