Brigitte Römmer-Nossek heads the team Student Research and Peer Learning at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the University of Vienna. She is a lecturer in the master’s programme MEi:CogSci (meicogsci.eu) as well as in the extension curricula for training peer tutors writing mentors; she was highly involved in the conception and development of both curricula. After studying English and Political Science in Vienna and Manchester she developed he own studium irregulare “Brain and Cognitive Sciences”. Following a period in non-university research and software development, she moved to the University of Vienna in 2004. She is an expert and trainer in academic writing and wrote her PhD on Academic Writing as a Cognitive Developmental Process. As a cognitive scientist and higher education professional, her ongoing interest is the question, how physical, social and organizational constraints foster student transformation.

Area of expertise (Other):

Student research; Education of student peers as multipliers to foster learning and academic writing.

We have to rethink how AI will change (some of) the competencies students will need when leaving the university. We need to rethink curricual not in a defensive, but proactive way: what do graduates need to know and to be able to do? How will this change what students and teachers do? What are the consequences for rooms (physical to virtual), curricula, and the organization? I have more questions than answers and I am interested in sharing perspectives.