This paper calls for a review of CDIO’s 2 standards on faculty competency to firstly make them more relevant to today’s AI-rich educational environment, and secondly to better reflect the dynamic nature of professional development in educational setting. This is predicated on the need to equip faculty with capability to maintain oversight over generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use as human-in-the-loop. To this end, the paper argued for a need to prepare faculty for one’s teaching role using a continuous improvement approach guided by the use of key AI Frameworks, namely the European Union’s Digital Competency Framework for Educators and the United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization AI Competency Framework for Teachers. To accommodate this aspiration, while cognizant of the desired not to have a laundry list of CDIO standards, this paper suggests that existing Standards 9 and 10 be merged to better reflect how they had been implemented in practice. The need for continual professional development can then make up the new Standard 10. The advantage of doing so preserves the use of standards 9 and 10 as addressing faulty teaching and learning competency but emphasized the importance of professional development. This is demonstrated through the plan-do-check-act cycle of continual improvement which perfectly complements the CDIO approach’s focus on the self-evaluation for program evaluation. By aligning continual faculty professional development, the paper further make the case that the approach can better support innovations in teaching and learning focusing on the Rumsfeld Matrix adapted for educational research. The key focus here is on the “unknown unknowns” where neither human intelligence nor artificial intelligence know what they don’t know. This is an area where faculty leverage on the strength of GenAI to identify potential areas for innovation and uses one’s own creativity to drive the change process consistent with curriculum redesign needs. The last concludes with suggested revisions Standard 9 and new Standard 10 for considerations.
