Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Higher Education: From Unesco Competency Frameworks To Contextualized Teaching Practices

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now an integral part of our everyday life, including education. AI has an enormous impact on teaching and learning activities, by enhancing engagement and developing higher-order skills, but it also raises important ethical issues. Particular attention should be paid to the use of AI within complex organizations, where it influences decision-making processes and the assumption of individual responsibilities. This also applies to Higher Education, where the use of AI raises questions of an ethical nature and issues related to the development of active and aware citizens. In this context, a pressing need to provide a framework arises and UNESCO has constituted its own frameworks for teachers and students, based on five core principles and divided in three graduated levels. However, this framework, created by a top-down approach and as a first edition, needs to be implemented in different context and updated based on a participatory approach.