AI in Education Seminar Series: Thinking About Generating Education

Event Date & Time

Event Description

In-person

Artificial Intelligence is imposing big changes on the world, and those changes are, necessarily, reflected in the landscape of education.  Over the last two years, I’ve seen the teaching and learning community across this institution transition through many phases: fear, boredom, excitement, and in some cases, inspiration and optimism. This talk will explore the journey that teaching and learning has undertaken in the face of this new disruptive technology, and will pose some ideas about how we could think of it as a way to save us from our past selves, to break us out of some of the habits, and to lift us off of the crutches that we think of as “just how we have always done things”.

Facilitator:

• Elisa Baniassad, Deputy Academic Director, CTLT

Dr. Elisa Baniassad is the Deputy Academic Director of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, where she is deeply involved in the faculty professional development and technical enablement for Generative AI in an instructional setting. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and holds a faculty position as a Professor of Teaching in Computer Science.