AI Assignments and Assessments Workshop by Dr. José Antonio Bowen √ §
Consider making assignments AI-Resistant or AI-Inclusive
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 337 (The Dance Cube)
Date & Time
January 23, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Description
Following our three-part fall book discussion on Teaching with AI by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, we are excited to welcome Dr. José Antonio Bowen, who will facilitate a workshop on “AI Assignments and Assessments.”
All assignments are now AI Assignments. In the same way that the ease of finding information on the internet forced faculty to rethink what homework students did and how we wanted them to do it, we will all need an AI strategy for assignments and assessment. We will consider both potential strategies: making your assignments AI-Resistant or AI-Inclusive. Since most work will soon be AI-assisted work, we can help prepare students for the jobs of the future with assignments that require or suggest that students use AI to assist in completing them. Through a wide diversity of examples, we will also discuss how we can reduce cheating and raise standards.
Please bring a device to the workshops.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Faculty Development Center and Instructional Technology and New Media.
Coffee and snacks will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going In Person” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food allergies, etc.) by Thursday, January 16. The deadline to register for this event is the earlier of Thursday, January 16 or when the event reaches capacity. Email fdc@umbc.edu to be added to a wait list if the event is full.
All assignments are now AI Assignments. In the same way that the ease of finding information on the internet forced faculty to rethink what homework students did and how we wanted them to do it, we will all need an AI strategy for assignments and assessment. We will consider both potential strategies: making your assignments AI-Resistant or AI-Inclusive. Since most work will soon be AI-assisted work, we can help prepare students for the jobs of the future with assignments that require or suggest that students use AI to assist in completing them. Through a wide diversity of examples, we will also discuss how we can reduce cheating and raise standards.
Please bring a device to the workshops.
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40
years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), as
a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College.
Bowen has worked as a musician
with Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, and many others and his symphony was
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1985). Bowen holds four
degrees from Stanford and has written over 100 scholarly articles and
books, including the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), Teaching Naked (2012 and the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Naked Techniques with C. Edward Watson (2017) and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). His latest book with C. Edward Watson is Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024, Johns Hopkins University Press). Bowen has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and has three TED talks. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops
at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries
around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for
significant contributions to American higher education). He is a senior
fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Faculty Development Center and Instructional Technology and New Media.
Coffee and snacks will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going In Person” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food allergies, etc.) by Thursday, January 16. The deadline to register for this event is the earlier of Thursday, January 16 or when the event reaches capacity. Email fdc@umbc.edu to be added to a wait list if the event is full.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Photo provided by José Antonio Bowen.
Note that funding for in person programs is limited, so we ask that you please commit to coming upon registration and kindly release your spot by January 16 if you can no longer attend.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff.
Please note that José Antonio Bowen is facilitating two different workshops on January 23:
- Register here for “AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering” from 12:30-1:45
- Register below for “AI Assignments and Assessments” from 2:00-3:15
