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Compliance Teaching in the Era of Generative AI

How do we teach students and young professionals about compliance in a way that they:

• enjoy learning,
• remember the key lessons,
• and translate them into real business practice?

One thing is certain — university teaching is undergoing a revolution, whether we admit it or not. And compliance education is no exception.

These questions were at the heart of our October coordination ComplianceM4UA meeting in Porto, where our team passionately discussed what effective compliance teaching should look like today.

We know the old school approach:

• write an engaging textbook filled with case studies and exercises,
• create interesting (but not too long) videos,
• design compelling lectures and workshops.

We did all that during our capacity-building project.

But is it enough?

Is it still relevant in the age of generative AI, when many students spend more time figuring out how to bypass learning (and not get caught) than actually learning?

And is it enough for a subject as complex as compliance — preparing students for a business reality that many still find hard to imagine?

We now have one more year to find out. The final meeting in Prague will give us a chance to answer these questions — not by theory, but through data and firsthand experience.

The creation of this communication has been funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) can be held responsible for them.