Category: Talk
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Heading into this Labor Day Weekend, we’re excited to announce our September ID and AI in HE meeting!📆Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025🕒Time: 3:00–4:00 PM ET💡Topic: AI Competencies for Instructional Designers As AI continues to transform higher education, instructional designers are playing a critical role in helping faculty and institutions navigate these shifts. This session will…
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Educators experimenting with AI often find that looking at others’ prompts helps us learn prompting strategies and get ideas for ways we may want to invite students to use AI. This workshop examines examples of educational prompt development, focusing on two cases: Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Toolbox, which incorporates critical thinking principles into AI prompts, and…
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AI in Education Custom Bots/GPTs July Showcase Monday, July 14th, 1:00-2:15pm ET Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/z4f8GiVoTmWwBD39r4_BYQ John Swope is an education technologist who has been building large-scale, open online courses on the Open edX® and edX.org platforms since 2012. He chairs the Open edX® educators working group and developed the Open edX® Demo Course, the flagship course that…
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Join us for our next free webinar with Kristen DiCerbo, the Chief Learning Officer of Khan Academy where we’ll explore the misconceptions and challenges involved with using and developing education specific applications of AI. LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31HnaKUsSMybf5LQVNAyJw#/registration The rush is on to understand how new AI applications will integrate into schools and education, and how to…
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VIDEO LINK [59m]: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGoLzAI2wU/BeaB3D9kTNzgrZldtlDTBA/view A few weeks ago, I delivered the closing keynote at UCF’s Teaching and Learning Conference. My thanks to Kevin Yee and Wendy Howard for the opportunity to reflect on the affordances and constraints of generative AI, the emergence of superintelligence, and the evolution of literacy—from secondary orality to human–AI-assisted authorship, and…
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From Lance Eaton: Here’s one of my recent talks on #GenAI for #Assessment in #HigherEd Ctrl+Alt+Assess: Rebooting Learning for the GenAI Era
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Dear Colleagues, You’re warmly invited to this year’s Faculty Institute at the University of Maine at Augusta (with virtual Zoom access). No cost. The AI in Education community has greatly enriched our professional growth, and now we’re eager to give back. Here is the event website: https://uma.edu/fi2025 Event Details: Why Attend? The 2025 UMA Faculty…
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Dear Colleagues, You’re invited to the virtual launch of two forthcoming Routledge volumes:Rethinking Writing Education in the Age of Generative AI andRethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI. These books (forthcoming in late May) bring together diverse perspectives bridging research, theory, and practice in response to the evolving language and writing education shaped by AI. We’ll be joined…
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This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming Instructional Design and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education group meeting. We are excited to welcome guest speaker Katie Bertel, MLIS, who will discuss the intersection of AI and accessibility. In this session, we will explore how AI can be used to enhance the accessibility of learning materials, create…
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Dwarkesh Patel Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion. Scott is author of the highly influential blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024, rejecting a non-disparagement clause and risking millions in equity to speak out about AI safety. We…
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I am thrilled to host Richard Mayer on Progressively Incorrect, a distinguished educational psychologist and researcher known worldwide for his groundbreaking contributions to understanding how we learn. Rich brings a wealth of knowledge and a sharp focus on multimedia learning, generative learning, and evidence-based critiques of discovery learning. In this episode, Rich will delve into…
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Demystifying Instructional Design, Episode 33: Exploring AI and Instruction Design with Dr. Luke Hobson Episode Summary Introduction to AI and Instructional DesignDr. Luke Hobson, an instructional design leader at MIT and educator at the University of Miami, shares his expertise in integrating generative AI (Gen AI) into instructional design. With experience creating meaningful learning experiences,…
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AI Explained Nothing Much Happens in AI, Then Everything Does All At Once When it rains, it pours. OpenAI Operator tested and reviewed, with full paper analysis. Perplexity Assistant is useful. Then Stargate, is it all smoke and mirrors? Strong rumours of an o3+ model from Anthropic. Then a full breakdown of Deepseek R1, and…
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YouTube recording: U.S. Access Board Preliminary Findings on the Risks and Benefits of AI Intersection of AI and disability/accessibility relevant to education.
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https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official o3 – wow o3 isn’t one of the biggest developments in AI for 2+ years because it beats a particular benchmark. It is so because it demonstrates a reusable technique through which almost any benchmark could fall, and at short notice. I’ll cover all the highlights, benchmarks broken, and what comes next. Plus, the…
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December 5, 12:00 – 1:00 PM (MST) How can colleges and universities best support AI literacy? This week the Future Trends Forum is delighted to host three Barnard academics who just developed an AI literacy framework: Elana Altman, Senior Associate Director for UX & Academic Technologies; Melanie Hibbert, Director of Instructional Media and Academic Technology…
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Dwarkesh Patel Asked Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist of OpenAI) about: