Research on Improvement of College Teachers’ Teaching Abilities in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is deeply contributing to the reforms and innovations in teaching and learning, bringing opportunities as well as challenges to the teachers in colleges and universities. This paper highlights the important impact of AI technologies on the field of higher education and discusses the potential challenges faced by college teachers in the era of AI in terms of the teaching methods, knowledge delivery, changes in the roles and functions of the teachers, and attempts to elaborate three capacities that college teachers should possess to deal with these challenges, namely, the personalized professional teaching capacity, modern technology application capacity, and scholarship of teaching capacity. These three capacities serve as the core factors that constitute the college teachers’ teaching abilities as well. Finally, this paper suggests feasible paths for the future improvement of college teachers’ teaching abilities and the effective integration of AI into teaching from the university and college level and the individual teacher level, respectively.