Quality Courses Quickly: Using GenAI as a Course Design Assistant
Friday, January 3, 2025 14:55
Session: Featured Session
Room: Room 319
Presentation Type: Featured Presentation
We are now sharing the world with Generative AI (GenAI), for better and for worse. All of the challenges – and all of the opportunities – that GenAI presents are here to stay. In the classroom, educators have an obligation to engage with GenAI and understand its implications on our lives and on how we teach. GenAI’s rapid development may present a daunting task for educators to harness it, but burying our collective heads in the sand is not a strategy for long-term success for ourselves nor, just as importantly, for our students.
In this hands-on session geared toward instructional designers and teachers at any level, presenters will show participants how to leverage the strengths of GenAI to make their course design and teaching practice more efficient and effective. Presenters will demystify GenAI for our less-experienced participants by introducing important considerations for GenAI use. The session will culminate in a demonstration, with participant input, exploring a few specific ways that a common GenAI tool such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot can augment a teacher's or instructional designer's practice as they design and build a course.
*Larry Cox II is a co-author and has contributed significantly to this research, albeit unable to present at the conference.
Biographies
Daron Williams
Mr Daron Williams is the Director of Instructional Design & Development for Technology-enhanced Learning & Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, United States. In this role, he works with faculty and administration to plan, design, and build engaging technology-enhanced courses and programmes for the university. He and his team also consult with faculty about effective teaching with technology in the classroom, and facilitate faculty professional development around topics in the same realm.
Mr Williams originally comes from a professional background in broadcasting and journalism. He earned a master's degree in Communication from Virginia Tech, where he is currently a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Roanoke College, United States.
Dan Yaffe
Mr Dan Yaffe is Director of Learning Technologies in Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, United States. Mr Yaffe has been working in Instructional Technologies (IT) and Professional Development (PD) fields for the past 10 years. Before transitioning to roles in IT and PD, he worked in the insurance and banking industry as well as corporate training. In his current role as Director, he supports the use of teaching and learning technologies and pedagogy across the university. He earned a Master of Education in Adult Education and Communications Technology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Instructional Design and Technology at Virginia Tech.
About the Presenter(s)
-Mr Daron Williams is the Director of Instructional Design & Development for Technology-enhanced Learning & Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, United States.
-Mr Dan Yaffe is Director of Learning Technologies in Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, United States.
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