Technical advances are rapidly impacting Teaching and Learning across, and within, all disciplines. From tools based on artificial intelligence to 3D printing, teachers in all disciplines have access to tools that only a few years ago did not exist or were too prohibitive to use in the classroom. In some cases these advances have already been exploited and are fundamentally changing the way teaching and learning happens. AI-powered tools can now generate elegant text from short prompts – for instance, generating essays from one-sentence topics. This will likely impact every discipline, but some more – and differently – than others. Similar tools can translate between natural (and computer) languages, impacting disciplines in the arts and sciences differently. Other tools can generate creative images from text, obviously impacting the visual arts, but likely not exclusively. Some of these tools are already being used in the classroom, with interesting results. A practical course consisting of several independent learning units was constructed to allow educators to learn how to apply digital innovation practice to their disciplines, as well as apply successful techniques implemented in other disciplines, within their own. These units were constructed by interviewing and working with over 30 discipline-based experts including site visits and trials. This poster aims to disseminate these lessons as well as to gather new approaches and experiences that can be incorporated into an expanded course. This course will be freely available online for any educator, in any discipline in 2023.

Authors:
Brett Becker, University College Dublin, Ireland

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Brett Becker is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University College Dublin in Ireland

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