Overview
This open course is designed to develop your Artificial Intelligence literacy so that you can explore and innovate using Generative AI within your teaching, learning, and assessment practices.
In light of the opportunities and challenges presented by these technologies, the course explores the fundamentals of Generative AI and AI literacy while maintaining a strong focus on ethical practice. You will consider innovative ways to respond to the challenges arising from the impact of these technologies in Higher Education.
Completion of the course will support you in developing a Generative AI teaching strategy that you can apply within your own professional practice.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognise and explain terminology associated with Generative AI, with a particular focus on its use within Higher Education;
- Evaluate the use of AI in teaching, learning, and assessment by considering what it is used for, why it is used, and how it is implemented;
- Explore and reflect on disciplinary pedagogical practices that incorporate Generative AI;
- Design and embed Generative AI approaches within your teaching, learning, and assessment practices.
Professional Development Recognition
On earning the open badge for this course, you will have achieved further recognition across the following domains of the National Professional Development Framework for Staff Who Teach:
- Domain 1: The Self — recognises the importance of the professional and personal values that individuals bring to their teaching and their development as educators;
- Domain 2: Professional Identity, Values and Development in Teaching and Learning — supports critical reflection on teaching and the development of the scholarship of teaching and learning;
- Domain 5: Personal and Professional Digital Capacity — recognises the importance of developing the digital skills needed to harness technology and improve learning.
Course Developers
This open course was developed by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in partnership with:
Dr Martina Crehan
Dublin City University
Dr Mary Fitzpatrick
University of Limerick
Dr Caitriona Ní Shé
Trinity College Dublin
Dr Pauline Rooney
Trinity College Dublin
Dr Ana Elena Schalk
Trinity College Dublin
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