Changing Education With AI: Macro to Micro

Paul M. Lane¹, R. Lafferty², E. Jackson¹, C. Lafferty³ 

(1. Grand Valley State University, USA; 2. Fusion Innovation, USA; 3. Aquinas College, USA)

Abstract: This is an exploration of AI in a Class and a University as an education resource. The authors represent professors and students at two Universities in the same city in the Midwest. Together this combination attempted to wrestle with how AI could be and should be incorporated into writing, business, and many other disciplines. It is developed in Course Design, Assignment Design, and its impact on Learning Objectives. Further, it is extended to writing as so many of our colleagues are engaged in writing-related classes. One of the students in the project works in a Writing Center and that has led to several workshops in the area. It started simply with a conversation that grew loud and then a request for a workshop and ultimately a series of workshops. These are reported on as well as the impact on the class designs. Ultimately the results include how the students feel, what is being done in the sequence of classes that the authors facilitate, and finally, the workshops produced in the local area.

Key words: artificial intelligence, learning from students, course design, assignment design, learning objectives

JEL codes: A22, D8, M0