@inproceedings{huovinen-hamalainen-2025-llm,
    title = "{LLM}-Assisted, Iterative Curriculum Writing: A Human-Centered {AI} Approach in {F}innish Higher Education",
    author = {Huovinen, Leo  and
      H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Mika},
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Alhafni, Bashar  and
      Bexte, Marie  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Tack, Ana{\"i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/acl25-workshop-ingestion/2025.bea-1.76/",
    pages = "1002--1010",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-270-1",
    abstract = "This paper details an LLM-assisted system designed to support curriculum writing within a Finnish higher education institution. Developed over 18 months through iterative prototyping, workshops, and user testing with faculty, the tool functions as a collaborative partner. It provides structured suggestions and analyzes course content for alignment with institutional goals and standards like UN SDGs, aiming to reduce educator cognitive load while keeping humans central to the process. The paper presents the system{'}s technical architecture, findings from user feedback (including quotes and evaluation metrics), and discusses its potential to aid complex educational planning compared to generic AI tools."
}