Beit Berl College is launching a sweeping transformation to position itself as Israel’s leading higher-education campus for artificial intelligence, an effort officials describe as a fundamental redesign of the academic experience.
The initiative targets three core areas: curriculum, instruction and assessment. Courses across departments will be updated for a job market where AI shapes most professions. In classrooms, AI agents will be treated as learning partners rather than optional tools. Testing and evaluation will also be reworked to reflect how students learn and create with intelligent systems.
To support the shift, the technology company ICTBIT is building a campuswide infrastructure to manage AI agents and resources. The system, based on ICTBIT’s Highrise AI platform, is designed to orchestrate AI use in teaching and research while providing governance, security and scalability, the college said.
A central piece of the transformation is a new Bachelor of Arts program in artificial intelligence and education, which the college calls a first-of-its-kind academic track. The goal is not only to teach AI technologies, but to prepare graduates to lead human-AI collaboration in learning environments.
Dr. Yishay Mor, who will head the degree, said the program is multidisciplinary and project-driven. Students will study the ethical and philosophical questions behind AI, then design and deploy AI-based educational tools from their first week in the program, guided by experts with cross-domain experience.
Dr. Yishay MorPhoto: Beit Berl CollegeThe college said the degree is aimed at educators seeking to reshape teaching for the AI age and tech-focused innovators who want to influence education systems. Graduates are expected to be prepared to lead AI-supported change in schools, build AI-driven learning tools and help organizations transition to hybrid human-machine learning models.
By pairing a new academic framework with a dedicated AI infrastructure, Beit Berl is betting on a future in which education is built around intelligent systems, and on its role in defining how that future takes shape.