AI & Applications

Thinking About Generating Education - Elisa Baniassad, Professor of Teaching Computer Science

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Abstract:

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 old habits and lift us off the crutches that we think of as “just how we have always done things.”

Bio:

Dr. Elisa Baniassad is the Deputy Academic Director of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, where she is deeply involved in 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.

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AI and Education Seminar Series: Tools, Impacts, and Future

This event is part of the AI and Education Seminar Series: Tools, Impacts, and Future.  This seminar series is co-hosted by the UBC Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTLT) and the UBC Centre for Artificial Intelligence Decision-making and Action (CAIDA).

These AI and Education seminars are designed to bring together scholars and educators from across the UBC campus to discuss the future of education in light of new AI tools such as Generative AI (GenAI). In these seminars, speakers will share their expertise in the field, their experiences with integrating AI tools into their teaching, and their perspectives on what the future might look like, as well as the responsibilities educators have in shaping that future.