Do you have an assignment or assessment component in one of your courses that just isn’t working anymore because of Generative AI? Are you looking for ways to meaningfully incorporate AI into your teaching – or to develop more ‘AI-resilient’ assessments? Bring your challenge!

This Workshop B is a hands-on follow-up to Workshop A: AI in education 2030: Speculative futuremaking. While Workshop A focused on creative future-thinking, this Workshop B moves from imagination to implementation. The goal is to build actual pilot tests to run in your own courses, programmes, and departments.

Everyone is welcome, but priority will be given to those who attended Workhop A. We especially encourage course and programme coordinators to join. This workshop series is meant as a pathway for UU faculty to respond to the growing challenges of GenAI by providing resources to help teachers actively develop and employ creative responses – sooner rather than later, and with a playful spirit of daring to think differently.

What to expect

Participants should bring a specific case to be workshopped. A ‘case’ could be an assignment or assessment component in a course that is (or runs the risk of) being compromised by GenAI, making it difficult to determine if key learning outcomes are being achieved. It should be a specific didactic situation that the participant (e.g., coordinator, workgroup teacher or lecturer) seeks to address or redesign.

Participants will be divided into small thematic teams based on the cases they bring. With the support of workshop facilitators, they will brainstorm and design creative alternatives. You should walk out of the workshop with a solid draft of a revised assignment or assessment in hand.

We want to encourage a positive, playful atmosphere of experimentation and daring. Let’s work together to figure out how to proactively respond to how GenAI is challenging what we do in university learning environments! It is an invitation to ‘think otherwise’ beyond the narrow discourse on plagiarism and inevitability, and to re-imagine education in a way that prioritizes its core purpose.

Workshop team

Core facilitation team and developers of this idea include Professor Annette Markham, Dr. Karin van Es, Dr. Sigrid Merx, Dr. Jasper van Vugt, Dr Anne Kustritz, Dr. Ingrid Hoofd, and Ani Encheva. These and other workshop facilitators are well-read and experienced in the latest practices as well as ethical considerations for responding to GenAI in classrooms. Additional experts will be on hand to help with curriculum design, best-practices pedagogy, and working with the particularities of the UU system.

The lead facilitator, Annette Markham, is an award-winning university teacher with over 20 years of experience in creative curriculum design and workshop facilitation in the educational, governmental, and public and a research profile focused on the impact of datafication and digitalization on young adults.

The event is coordinated and co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities, the Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab, and the Department of Media & Culture Studies.

For any questions, please contact cdh@uu.nl.

Lunch

After the workshop, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch and conversation. Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to join.

Practical information

More workshops A and B will be taught in the Spring semester: dates are yet to be announced.

Level

No prior experience with generative AI is required. The workshop will be held in English.

Preparation

Participants should bring their own laptops.

For whom?

Due to our funding, priority will be given to teachers and researchers from the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University. If you are affiliated with another faculty or institution, you are welcome to register register to be placed on the waiting list. We will notify you of available spaces shortly before the workshop.

Registration

This event is free of charge, but pre-registration is required. To sign up, please complete the registration form below. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you register but can no longer attend, please inform us by emailing cdh@uu.nl, so we can offer your spot to another participant. Thank you for your cooperation.