Generative AI Playground: Backwards Course Design with Generative AI
Are you looking to integrate GenAI into your teaching without compromising pedagogical rigour? Are you curious about how you can use GenAI to design or redesign your course grounded in a pedagogical framework? This workshop provides a hands-on walkthrough on designing or redesigning a course using the Understanding by Design framework, supported by generative AI. Participants will be introduced to the AI DesignLab, a new open access human centered, AI-assisted course development platform developed by Western faculty. You bring your expertise, AI helps you build. During the session, we will move step by step through the key stages of backward design with AI assistance: defining learning goals, designing authentic assessments,; and creating aligned learning experiences. Attendees will leave the workshop with a functional course outline and full access to the AI DesignLab platform to continue their work.
