For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Helen Choi, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares her “What’s your p(doom)?” assignment in which students make and justify a personal calculation of the probability of “doom” (e.g., social, environmental, political, economic collapse) in relation to AI technology. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Elisabeth Arnold Weiss, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares the design principles and learning impact of her “Future Stories Project” assignment in which students compose two complementary narratives that envision the future of the LA Memorial Coliseum: one using traditional written storytelling and the other using AI image generation tools. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Misha Kouzeh, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, describes strategies for building student AI literacy and for using AI to personalize learning. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Tina Austin, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, presents an approach to selecting AI tools and tasks that align with STEM course learning objectives and deepen student engagement with content. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Andrew De Silva, Dornsife College of Arts, Letters and Sciences, shares insight on comparing human- and AI-produced writing using a sample essay prompt from the Dornsife Writing Program. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
In this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Jane Lah and Neha Rao, USC Libraries, provide an overview of a student-facing mini-course, “AI: Mindful Applications,” designed to provide undergraduate students with a self-paced tutorial on informed and ethical use of generative AI in writing and research. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
This resource provides guidance for incorporating community building activities into a course to foster belonging, increase engagement, and build collaboration and communication skills. It includes strategies and considerations for using community building activities as well as sample activities categorized by purpose. Keywords: community building, icebreakers, belonging, inclusion, collaboration, group work.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Julianna Kirschner discusses setting up Brightspace group assignments and discusses the managing evaluators tool for grading in classes with TAs.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024 Jennifer Bankard compares and assesses the effectiveness of Brightspace quizzes versus assignments regarding open-ended homework questions or projects.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Jody Tolan of Marshall School of Business discusses lessons learned in administering Brightspace exams and identifying student readiness for Respondus.
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