Exploring practical, responsible and transformative ways artificial intelligence can augment teaching, learning, assessment and human mentorship.
View Programme Explore WorkshopThe workshop brings together educators, academic leaders, researchers and stakeholders to examine how AI can genuinely support higher education while preserving academic quality and human mentorship.
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the educational landscape. Beyond general discussions of generative AI, this workshop focuses on practical adoption across teaching, tutoring, learning, assessment and classroom transformation. It will examine both the opportunities and the challenges created by widespread access to AI tools.
Particular attention will be given to assessment redesign, responsible and ethical AI use, and the continuing role of human educators in motivation, judgement, contextual understanding, mentoring, research guidance and academic values.
Develop a practical template for AI-enabled education that can be adapted across higher-education institutions in the country.
Focus: practical use cases, assessment innovation, ethics and human-AI complementarity.
Explore how AI can support educators and augment existing educational processes.
Examine AI-assisted teaching, personalized support and scalable tutoring.
Consider individualized learning experiences and more interactive educational practices.
Rethink assignments and assessment when learners have access to generative AI.
Identify innovative applications that can transform lectures, tutorials and classroom experiences.
Discuss fairness, transparency, academic integrity and appropriate human oversight.
A full-day programme structured around transformation, assessment, ethics and the future role of educators.
Lamp Lighting · Address by Director IIT Kanpur, Prof. Manindra Agrawal · Introduction by PIC CERTEX, Prof. Manoj Harbola · Address by VC BHU, Prof. Ajit Chaturvedi · Address by VC CSJMU, Prof. Vinay Pathak
Dean, Kotak School of Sustainability · Intelligent Air Quality Management
Refreshments and networking
Human mentorship in the age of AI
AI Augmentation in Classroom Teaching
Experiences on Use of AI in the Classroom
Prof. C. S. Upadhyay and Prof. Santosh Misra
Lunch and interaction
Leveraging AI for Assignments
Coding Assignments in the Age of AI
Prof. Aditya Kelkar
Prof. Aditya Kelkar · Prof. Amit Kuber · Prof. Ushasi Roy · Prof. C. S. Upadhyay · Prof. Manoj Harbola
Tea, coffee and refreshments
Ethics in AI
Moderators: Prof. Ushasi Roy and Prof. Ritika Gautam · Panel: Mr. A.K. Sharma, Prof. Salman Khan, Mr. Dhruv Anand, Prof. Brishti Mitra, Prof. Hamim Zafar, Prof. Bhaskar Bhattacharya, BHU
Prof. Aditya Jagannatham
The programme brings together academic leaders, faculty members and experts from multiple institutions.
Director, IIT Kanpur · Inaugural Address
PIC CERTEX · Introduction
Vice Chancellor, BHU · Inaugural Address
Vice Chancellor, CSJMU · Inaugural Address
Dean, Kotak School of Sustainability · Intelligent Air Quality Management
CSJMU · Human Mentorship in the Age of AI
BHU · AI Augmentation in Classroom Teaching
Experiences on Use of AI in the Classroom · Open Mic
Chair, Session II · Open Mic on AI Transformation of Classrooms
BHU · Chair, Session III
Leveraging AI for Assignments
Coding Assignments in the Age of AI
CERTEX Presentation on AI for Assessments · Open Mic
Team CERTEX · Open Mic
Team CERTEX · Panel Moderator
Chair, Session IV
BHU · Ethics in AI
Panel Moderator
Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
BHU · Panel Discussion on AI in Higher Education
The workshop is coordinated by faculty members from IIT Kanpur, CSJMU and BHU.
EE, IIT Kanpur
ConvenerCSE, IIT Kanpur
ChE, IIT Kanpur
Education, CSJMU
CS, BHU
Education, BHU
Professor-in-charge and Executive Committee members of the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Excellence (CERTEX), IIT Kanpur.
Department of Physics
Professor-in-charge, CERTEX
Electrical Engineering
Physics
Mathematics
Cognitive Science
Aerospace Engineering
Chemistry
BSBE
Design
Mechanical Engineering
Humanities and Social Science
The workshop is designed to produce actionable insights rather than stop at broad conversations about AI.
L17, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Kanpur, Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016
Get Directions on Google MapsMr. Akhilesh Singh
Office-in-charge, CERTEX
e-mail: singhak@iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-512-2596190