AI

Pedagogy

Mind the Gap: Adapting Higher Education to the Age of AI

This project explores how Generative AI impacts academic writing and challenges critical thinking in higher education. Building on the PACE framework (Prompting, Authenticity, Critical Thinking, Evaluation), it seeks ways to strengthen student learning and assessment in the AI era.

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Start & End Date

01.11.2025 - 30.06.2026

Main Applicant

Tsukanova, T., EHL Hospitality Business School

Co-applicants

• Davide Calvaresi, HES-SO Valais-Wallis - Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie

• Natalie Sarrasin, HES-SO Valais-Wallis - Haute Ecole de Gestion

External Funding

HES-SO

Project Description

The rise of GenAI tools like ChatGPT is outpacing universities' ability to adapt their curricula, assessments, and integrity rules. Mind The Gap (MTG) is an eight-month interdisciplinary open innovation project that develops and pilots a proof-of concept platform to help educators redesign courses for the GenAI era. It maps educator needs, co-designs a web prototype that analyzes syllabi, flags AI-automatable tasks, and proposes higher-order alternatives using a neurosymbolic approach. Piloted in business and engineering domains, MTG key outputs include a web prototype, a prompt-rule library, guidelines, and an anonymized dataset. MTG will enable educators to efficiently audit and improve course design, promoting ethical and scalable GenAI integration in higher education.

Our Team

Dr. Tatyana Tsukanova

Assistant Professor

Dr. Tatyana Tsukanova is a researcher and visiting professor at EHL Hospitality Business School, specializing in entrepreneurship, strategy, and data science. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Tartu, Estonia, where she studied institutional complexity and strategic decision-making in international expansion. She has an extensive academic background, including teaching at HEC Lausanne and serving as a visiting scholar at Florida State University. Her research explores entrepreneurial ecosystems, digitalization, and internationalization, with publications in leading journals such as Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Business Venturing. 

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Dr Davide Calvaresi

Associate professor

Prof. Dr. Davide Calvaresi is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering (HEI), HES-SO Valais-Wallis. He holds a Ph.D. in Emerging Digital Technologies – Real-Time Embedded Systems from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. His research focuses on real-time multi-agent systems, explainable AI, distributed learning, blockchain, and assistive technologies. He currently leads projects on pedagogical scaffolded learning with LLMs/GenAI (ELITE, MTG) and on explainable modeling for cantonal populations (VALIDATE-H). Dr. Calvaresi has chaired several international workshops, led or contributed to numerous (inter)national projects, and co-founded Wriggle Solutions, a startup developing patented real-time tire wear monitoring systems. He has published over 100 scientific papers, with more than 3,000 citations.

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Natalie Sarrasin

Lecturer

Natalie Sarrasin is a senior lecturer and pedagogical advisor at the Management School Valais (HES-SO Valais). She holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Lausanne (HEC) and has undertaken further training in educational science. She supports the digital transition of companies and training institutions in terms of technology use, innovation, marketing, and pedagogy. She is also a member of the boards of several institutions. She has been President of the Swiss section of the Association Internationale de Pédagogie Universitaire (AIPU) since 2022. Her latest publication is a contribution to the book L'Education à l'Epreuve de l'Intelligence Artificielle, Epistémé, 2025.

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Lionel Saul 

Research Assistant 

Lionel Saul is a Research Assistant at EHL Hospitality Business School. His research interests center around sustainable business practices, as well as their contribution to the ecological transition and other contemporary grand challenges. Lionel holds a MSc in Business Administration with a major in Strategic Foresight, and is currently doing his PhD in Management at the University of Lausanne.

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