AI Insight: CTLR’s AI Workshop Series

(Time to Read: 2 mins.)

This is the first in a series of arti­cles on arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and GenAI, in which we’ll cov­er some his­tor­i­cal tech­no­log­i­cal back­ground, along with the spe­cif­ic projects and tools in use at Van­cou­ver Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, and how the Cen­tre for Teach­ing, Learn­ing, and Research (CTLR) is sup­port­ing and guid­ing their use.

(For a grand overview of our approach­es to using GenAI in teach­ing and learn­ing, check out this col­lec­tion of AI resources from CTLR.)

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Start­ing in April 2024, Instruc­tion­al Asso­ciates in VCC’s Cen­tre for Teach­ing, Learn­ing, and Research host­ed a series of work­shops on GenAI and its uses in post-sec­ondary edu­ca­tion.
Here are video record­ings from those work­shops:

Redesigning Assessments with AI in mind

Emi­ly Simp­son, Oct. 18/24
This work­shop pro­vid­ed a frame­work for eval­u­at­ing a course assignment/assessment’s vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to GenAI. It cov­ered guid­ing ques­tions when con­sid­er­ing assess­ment design, and looked at pos­si­ble options for mit­i­gat­ing or inte­grat­ing AI use. We explored prompts for redesign­ing assess­ments, and some spe­cif­ic tools like Note­bookLM, Leon Furze’s AIAS scale cus­tom GPT, and McMas­ter Assess­ment Part­ner.

Building Moodle Quiz and H5P activities with GenAI

Emi­ly Simp­son, Oct. 10/24
This work­shop explored using Copi­lot and Chat­G­PT to build Moo­dle quizzes and H5P activ­i­ties, using a series of prompts cre­at­ed by CTL­R’s Andrew Dunn. We also looked at using a cus­tom GPT, “Video Sum­ma­riz­er”, to sup­port cre­at­ing inter­ac­tive videos.

Co-Developing Course Materials with Copilot

Emi­ly Simp­son, Oct. 04/24
This work­shop reviewed the use of Microsoft Copi­lot (with Enter­prise license) to co-devel­op teach­ing mate­ri­als via text and image gen­er­a­tion, reflect­ing recent Octo­ber changes to Copi­lot. We also reviewed the use of Chat­G­PT for image analy­sis for alt text gen­er­a­tion, sum­ma­riz­ing hand-drawn notes, and explored some cus­tom GPTs and Claude arti­facts that could be use­ful in edu­ca­tion work.

Revise your Assessment to Mitigate or Integrate AI

Emi­ly Simp­son, Jul. 29/24
This work­shop explored how to revise assess­ments for AI using AI. We used a series of guid­ing ques­tions to deter­mine what mean­ing­ful learn­ing is for course learn­ing out­comes, we used a deci­sion-mak­ing flow­chart to decide if its appro­pri­ate to inte­grate AI into an assign­ment, and we went through test­ing assess­ment vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties to AI. Final­ly, we explored McMas­ter’s Assess­ment Part­ner, a series of prompts with an AI chat­bot, and a cus­tom GPT, to look at dif­fer­ent tools you can use for assess­ment redesign.

Teaching in the Age of AI — July 2024

Emi­ly Simp­son, Jul. 15/24
This work­shop pro­vid­ed updates on AI trends in edu­ca­tion, and cov­ered how to devel­op a holis­tic approach to AI through­out your course, cen­ter­ing con­ver­sa­tions with stu­dents, and reflect­ing on what learn­ing is mean­ing­ful now and how to assess it.

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The Cen­tre for Teach­ing, Learn­ing and Research (CTLR) at Van­cou­ver Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege sup­ports teach­ing and learn­ing through four core areas of ser­vice: Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment in Teach­ing and Learn­ing, Indige­nous Course & Pro­gram Sup­port, Cur­ricu­lum Devel­op­ment, and ELearn­ing Sup­port in the inte­gra­tion of learn­ing tech­nol­o­gy.

See all of CTLR’s events and workshops schedule.