Join us as we talk with Peter Arashiro, from the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. Peter is a long-time friend and we’ve worked on a variety of projects together over the years. We’re excited to explore 2 important Learning Trends we should be focusing on in 2022.

Segment Topics: Designing with DEIJ lenses

• Persona development
  • Chelsea Chandler - Associate Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence - Bowling Green State University
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in MOOCs: Mapping Goals from Proposal to Design - lead author
      • Rebecca Quintana
      • Yuanru Tan
      • Nicole Yang
    • DEIJ Lenses
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    • Cynthia Bennett - post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute
      • The Radical AI Podcast Interview
      • “It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Description in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability - lead author
        • Identity

AI/ML/NLP for designing learning experiences

• Data and algorithms
  • Learning analytics
  • NLP and Content
• Content knowledge acquisition at scale; becoming more efficient at producing prototypes and content
  • Brute force “learning”; or
  • Use NLP techniques to assist designers with
    • Summarizing large sets of text (think transcripts)
    • Identifying key concepts in text
    • Generating MCQ or other forms of assessment
  • Content generation and AI/ML in ID/LXD
    • Donald Clark - EdTech Entrepreneur, researcher, professor
      • Artificial intelligence for Learning: How to use AI to support employee development
      • CEO of WildFire Learning
    • Learning about NLP to gain insights about your learning experience/ID practice –
      • Position paper - Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data - lead author with Alexander Koller
      • TWIML (formerly this week in machine learning) podcast interview