The Educator as an Embedded AI Designer

• Authors: Liu Liu, Ng Sook Mun, Adi Suryanata Herwana, and Markus Yeo
• Published: 2025
• Source: In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Technology Management (ICETM 2025)
• Location: Guangzhou, China

The Embedded AI Designer Framework redefines educators as active co-designers who encode disciplinary reasoning and pedagogical intent directly into GenAI systems. Faculty agency is exercised through a Pedagogy-AI Co-evolution Loop consisting of intentional design, orchestrated mediation, and reflective alignment.

Future Readiness: The future of higher education depends on strengthening “design literacy”—the capacity of educators to shape AI behavior to ensure machine intelligence serves human purposes.

Shift in Faculty Role: This framework moves educators from being passive adopters of AI tools to active architects who embed academic logic and ethical standards into AI operations.

The Three-Stage Loop: Faculty agency is operationalized through Intentional Design (encoding intent), Orchestrated Mediation (guiding interactions), and Reflective Alignment (improving pedagogy via AI data).

Cross-Disciplinary Validation: Real-world applications in law (mock trials), nursing (empathy training), and computer science (scaffolded debugging) demonstrate how AI can mirror expert human reasoning.

Pedagogy-First Paradigm: The study proposes that AI should function as a medium to extend human expertise and professional judgment rather than a tool for mere automation.