Organization: University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL)
Project: Stage a three-day, campus-wide design studio and conference focused on A.I. in higher education
Year(s): 2024
Role: Co-Designer & Co-Facilitator
Major Responsibilities: Conceptualize, co-design and co-produce conference; Design and facilitate a Liberatory Design Thinking session and mini pitch events; Co-design and emcee an after hours open mic event; Co-design online repository; Co-coordinate conference assessment activities
Process: Co-Design , Co-Produce + Co-Assess
Conceptualize, co-design & co-produce conference: Collaborate with CTL/ASSETT team members and faculty informants to identify conference theme, speaker and workshop topics, and participant deliverables for the embedded design studio; Co-coordinate event logistics including participant recruitment, design studio applications, catering; workshop and speaker booking; Co-develop and co-implement “run-of-show” for each day of the three day event
Design & facilitate a Liberatory Design Thinking session and mini pitch events: Iterated an existing presentation focused on Liberatory Design Thinking to deliver to design workshop faculty and graduate student participants focused on developing resources for an online, open Teaching & Learning with A.I. repository; Developed and facilitated two mini pitch sessions for designers to present to and receive feedback from their peers.
Co-design & Emcee an after hours open mic event: Conspired with my closest conference collaborator to stage “Hot & Bothered by A.I.” an open mic event where faculty and graduate students could shed their academic professionalism and share their true feelings about the impacts of A.I. on teaching & learning.
Co-design an online, open repository: Collaborated with an in-house CTL web designer to develop an open repository to house resources developed by faculty and graduate students participating in the design studio conference sessions. Developed a resource review rubric to review and publish resources as they were submitted.
Co-coordinate conference assessment activities: Supported development and deployment of a participant feedback survey; Designed and facilitated multiple post-mortem dialogues for group sense making over conference design process, participant feedback, and outcomes.
Outcomes:
- 54 unique participants attended an all day event featuring hands-on workshops and keynote speakers focused on A.I. literacy and the impacts of A.I. on teaching & learning in higher education.
- 20 brave souls attended an open mic event to vent and/or celebrate their true feelings about the impacts of A.I. on teaching & learning.
- 19 faculty and graduate student pioneering designers participated in two half-day design workshops to develop resources for an online, open repository for Teaching & Learning with A.I.
- Recordings of conference keynote speakers Maha Bali and Marc Watkins are openly available on the ASSETT YouTube channel for any educator or learner to watch.
- As of Summer 2024 the open repository of Teaching & Learning with A.I. resources is live with 20 published lessons and growing!