UKICER 2025 – Pre-conference Event 1: GenAI Integration in Computer Science Education

This event will be presented by Pavlos Andreadis

The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) sets both a challenge and an opportunity for Computer Science (CS) education. This interactive event builds on key insights from a recent study* exploring how GenAI is being integrated into CS teaching, assessment, and learning at the University of Edinburgh. We’ll share emerging patterns, pitfalls, and points of tension identified through staff and student engagement, and use these as a springboard for collective reflection – surfacing shared concerns and identifying concrete next steps, at the level of course design, institutional policy, or collaborative experimentation.

Participants will engage in a practical, hands-on exercise using GenAI tools within a controlled CS education context – designed to be directly useful, while also shedding light on effective and ineffective practices. This session is aimed at course organisers, instructors, and teaching-focused researchers seeking to make informed, context-sensitive decisions about GenAI in their teaching.
Come prepared to think critically, test practically, and contribute meaningfully to a rapidly evolving conversation that will shape the future of CS education.

Join us to learn, experiment, and help define how GenAI should serve – not distort – the goals of CS education.

* Principals’ Teaching Award Scheme-funded; GenAI Integration in Computer Science Education.

Register for the event as a free add-on through the UKICER 2025 website.