2026년 8월 19일
Rethinking what a physics classroom is for when AI can answer everything
We are proud to share that Prof. Junggi Yoon has received the Grand Prize as an outstanding QUEST Innovative Teaching faculty member, based on the results of his Mathematical Physics 1 course in the Spring 2026 semester. Kyung Hee University recognized the course as an exemplary case and featured it at the university's QUEST Innovative Teaching Best-Practice Sharing Session.
The redesigned course confronts three challenges that classrooms face in the age of AI: the outsourcing of thinking — and the loss of student motivation that comes with it — the disappearance of questions from the lecture hall, and the deeper question of what a university is really for. In response, the course rebuilds learning around active, AI-integrated components. A Socratic AI tutor, distributed with a dedicated system prompt, never hands over a final answer but advances one guiding question at a time. In AI Peer Critique assignments, students hunt down and repair errors deliberately planted in AI-generated solutions, learning to verify rather than trust machine output. Sub-60-second Concept Shorts ask students to explain core ideas in their own words, recorded recitation videos let them rework problems at their own pace, and a gamified "Fearless Questioner & Eagle Eye" scheme rewards those who ask questions and spot mistakes — rebuilding a culture of inquiry in the classroom.
We warmly congratulate Prof. Yoon on this recognition, and we hope the course serves as a useful model for teaching physics in the AI era.