I was at the Teaching and Learning with AI 2024 Conference in Orlando, Florida on July 22nd-24th. I am posting this mostly for members of our team who stayed behind and gallantly supported the Teaching & Learning Center back at Clover Park Technical College. We went to this conference last year and got so much out of it, made so many great connections, that I am thrilled we were able to make it back (despite the ferocious humidity in Orlando). I would recommend this conference to anyone: teachers, admins, K-12 or college, instructional designers, folks in the OER space, or anyone having any interest not only in the future of ed tech but of work in general. I want to share a few books, resources, tools, and websites that I know I will come back to or use with our OER faculty (and others) in the future, and by future I mean this Fall!
This is a list of just a few resources that I think we should examine at Clover Park for our professional development. I went to many more presentations and made a lot of great connections with people and ideas, but this are some highlights for the Teaching & Learning Center:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI). (n.d.) Missouri Online.
This site shows what the university system in Missouri believes are the most important points to hit in their faculty professional develop around AI: “Generative AI has rapidly expanded and significantly impacted higher education. Use the links below to explore the available resources for harnessing the power of AI in your teaching and learning activities.” - Artificial Intelligence and Information Literacy. (n.d.) Center for Teaching and Learning Transformation. University of Maryland. Online module.
This, or something like it edited for the needs of a technical college, would be useful for both faculty and students. I downloaded the module and put it on our server but the module was built using some commercial tool add-ons and using videos hosted on UM’s server. I would like to build something like this that could be put out into the Creative Commons and Canvas Commons without the proprietary distractions. The module is live on UM’s server. - Conrad, Kathryn and Kaperman, Sean (n.d.) Critical AI Literacy for Educators. Padlet.
Lots of resources in this curated list. I will be mining this for a while! - Mollick, Ethan and Mollick, Lilach (2023) Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students with Prompts. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania & Wharton Interactive.
This extensive article is broken down into seven sections representing different roles that AI can play with a student. A useful introduction to creating prompts and will lead you to thinking about other possible roles and uses of AI. - Teaching with AI @ Auburn. (n.d.) Biggio Center. University of Auburn. Canvas Course.
“This self-paced, asynchronous online course has an estimated total duration of approximately 8-10 hours.” I like the topics covered and how it is sequenced. The website gives a good outline of the course. A good model to compare our work here with our courses. - Yee, Kevin et al. (2023) ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. FCTL Press. Orlando, Florida.
This book is a useful resource for teachers. I would recommend this to any teacher who wanted to experiment with a few simple assignments before taking the plunge into AI. - Yee, Kevin et al. (2023) AI Hacks for Educators. FCTL Press. Orlando, Florida.
This book is focused not on students, but helping teachers save time and streamline their work using AI for things like writing curriculum, outlining a course, updating syllabi, creating rubrics, etc. This is important because the number one challenge that most faculty report is lack of time.
Again, these are just a few resources for our team around professional development. I will add more to this later as I digest it all. If you have some favorite resources for professional development around AI, feel free to post them in a comment below.
Note: One of the short courses I would recommend for faculty professional development is the AI for Education Course, a two-hour course that is a quick introduction, gets faculty using the tools, and provides a badge (microcredential).
