Website: Course and Assignment Design
Designing Assignments
Georgetown University Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
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To me, this website is a great place to start thinking about how you might leverage AI in your assignment design; use the examples of new and adapted assignments to spark your own ideas. If you are not yet ready to integrate AI into your assignments, you will still find useful suggestions for designing authentic, original assignments.
Designing assignments effectively relies on the same principles as before the rise of natural language processing tools, with a few added considerations explained in this section.
As you begin to (re)design assignments in your course, we encourage asking yourself the following six questions (adapted from Derek Bruff, former director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, as written in his blog):
- Why does this assignment make sense for this course?
- What are specific learning objectives for this assignment?
- How might students use AI tools while working on this assignment?
- How might AI undercut the goals of this assignment? How could you mitigate this?
- How might AI enhance the assignment? Where would students need help figuring that out?
- Focus on the process. How could you make the assignment more meaningful for students or support them more in the work?
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