Educator Insights: Building AI-Resilience in Community Colleges through Sociotechnical Understanding & Implementation of Direct Assessment Competency Based Education (CBE) & Introducing FeedbackFruits (Friday SLO Talk: 10/27/23) Leia Yen is one of the co-executive directors and co-founders of Global Community College Transfers, the first national network and mentorship program dedicated to equipping American community college students […]
Friday SLO Talk (October 20, 2023) First Presentation: Rodrigo Gomez is an Assistant Professor of English at San Diego Miramar College, where he’s been teaching transfer-level composition and literature courses since 2016. Professor Gomez has a passion for rhetoric, pedagogy, and poetry. He also has interest in gamification, edtech, and web3 technologies like artificial intelligence […]
Using Canvas for Automated Data CollectionFrederick’s Friday SLO Talk Summary:This session will provide a step-by-step process of creating outcomes in Canvas that are aligned with assessment tasks through the scoring devices used in courses. A foundational understanding of the Canvas architecture and how it connects with assessment tasks to automate data collection will be shared. […]
Summary: In this session, we will explore the landscape and shifting terrain of the different conversations unfolding around the impact of AI on assessment, how it is being addressed, where people think it might be going, and what it means for policy and assessment from classroom to career. Presentation Materials: CREATE method: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0g9cfm-09tGDlQNmoBvZsXO1ImwUTmqMBVS1yPfr2o/edit?usp=sharing The future […]
Writing Instruction in the age of generative AI: Evolving practices for instructors Tamara’s Talk Summary: We will discuss the affordances and challenges of the newest large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT to support writing and writers. Students need to understand the basics of large language models and AI writing tools’ functions, strengths, weaknesses, and […]
Title: Friday SLO Talk: Kickstarting Academic Year 2023/24 with an Insightful Dive into SLO Assessment & AI’s Impact Description: Welcome to the inaugural session of Friday SLO Talk for the academic year 2023/24! We are thrilled to present a platform that bridges dialogue and knowledge among faculty, assessment practitioners, and various stakeholders in higher education. […]
Abstract The public release and surprising capacity of ChatGPT has brought AI-enabled text generation into the forefront for educators and academics. ChatGPT and similar text generation tools raise numerous questions for educational practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. We begin by first describing what large language models are and how they function, and then situate them in […]