Agile Learning (Derek Bruff)
Friday, October 9
What’s the point of an assignment?
This week included a quick trip to New York City to share a few thoughts on AI-aware teaching with the editors at W. W. Norton. During their annual editors retreat, they spent some time thinking about AI, how its changing higher education, and what that means for a textbook publisher …
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Friday, October 2
Scaling AI-Aware Teaching from Course to Campus (or, What I Thought About That MIT Report)
What does it take to help the entire faculty of a college or university learn and adopt new teaching practices? This is a question I’ve had to grapple with twice in my career. The first time was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I was serving as the director of …
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Thursday, September 10
MIT’s Report on AI in Teaching and Learning
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as MIT) released a report last month sharing the findings and recommendations of their Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research. I’ve read a lot of university reports on AI over the last…
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Friday, August 21
Toward better mental models of learning with AI: AI as possibility machine
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. One of the things I appreciate about designing and facilitating workshops for faculty is that doing so gives me the opportunity to take a few ideas and examples that have been bouncing around my head and turn them into a new argument of some …
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Tuesday, July 14
A Coherent Program-Level Response to Generative AI
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. Two weeks ago in the newsletter, I shared some data from this summer’s Inside Higher Ed student survey on the ways students find generative AI helpful in their learning. Today, I want to point to more data from that survey, this time about institutional responses…
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