AI platform reduces professor admin time by 60% at Khalifa University

Abu Dhabi: A university's artificial intelligence platform has cut professors' administrative duties by 60%, allowing them to concentrate on research and teaching, according to Khalifa University's president, Prof. Ebrahim Al Hajri. Speaking at Ai Everything, he explained that the platform streamlines class preparation, exam setting, and grading.

This additional time enables professors to contribute more meaningfully to society. The platform provides each student with an AI assistant loaded with course material, linking early skills to later use and enabling the university to identify talent through student interactions. The AI-driven curriculum also considers market demands, ensuring students graduate with job-ready skills.

With AI making content abundant, instructors will serve as facilitators, integrating industry experience and real-life challenges into the classroom. Over the next two years, the platform aims to prepare lessons for instructors and suggest groupings based on students' skills, enabling collaborative or individual projects. Prof. Al Hajri emphasized that universities play a crucial role in creating new research, training talent, and evaluating AI, bridging the gap between business and government.

The curriculum is designed backward from defined graduate attributes, integrating AI and entrepreneurship before building subject content. By developing students' ethics, leadership, curiosity, agility, lifelong learning, empathy, and humility alongside technical skills, the university aims to produce graduates who create jobs rather than seek them.

The university's AI education is now being expanded to private schools in Abu Dhabi, benefiting over 220 teachers and 220,000 students.