Transformative Learning & Self-Efficacy in a world shaped by AI: Empowering students through Future Skills

Abstract

Generative AI faces educational institutions in particular with an immense challenge and requires them to prepare students for unknown contexts in order not to fall behind in the race against technological progress. Teaching Future Skills as such competencies that prepare students for complex, emergent situations is a key to achieving this. This paper shows a pedagogical teaching-learning concept to promote Future Skills in higher education. With various learning materials students are supported in their personal skills development and are also prepared for the demands of the future working world through evidence-based self- and external assessments and situational and self-reflective learning. In addition to the pedagogical concept, quantitative evaluation results of the workshop on which the concept is based are presented. The Workshop was trialed with 1143 students and evaluated via questionnaire. The aim of the research design was to find out the acceptance, the reaction and learning effectiveness of the Future Skills Learning design as well as the self-efficacy of the students.