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Stefania Zourlidou, University of Koblenz, GermanyAbstract
This paper examines what has to align before educators can integrate LLM-based ethics scaffolding into ordinary higher-education teaching without increasing marking burden, rule ambiguity, or inappropriate reliance on automated output. The paper develops an educator-facing framework from a bounded cross-case synthesis of recent higher-education literature and two prior design cases, one addressing classroom use of an LLM-supported ethics activity, and one addressing assessment redesign for keeping student reasoning inspectable under AI use. The paper proposes six design conditions for course integration: pedagogical positioning, workflow fit, visible reasoning, governance clarity, infrastructural reliability, and educator capability-building. These conditions suggest that adoption is less a matter of individual willingness to use AI than a matter of coordinated design across pedagogy, assessment, policy, infrastructure, and staff development. The paper contributes a practical framework, a temporal reading of how the conditions surface across the life of a course, and a worked illustration showing how the framework travels beyond computing to other judgment-intensive disciplines. Its central argument is that responsible adoption becomes more plausible when AI is bounded to a clearly defined pedagogical role and when student deliberation remains interpretable, assessable, and governable in everyday teaching conditions.
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Conference: ECE2026Stream: Design
Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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Zourlidou S. (2026) Design Conditions for Educator Adoption of LLM-Based Ethics Scaffolding in Higher Education ISSN: 2188-1162 The European Conference on Education 2026: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 587-596) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2026.45
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2026.45
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