Category: Teaching & Learning

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks to those of you who joined us for our AI Roundtable on Pedagogy and curriculum last Tuesday, and for sharing your knowledge and experience in the chat.  It was interesting to learn more about the possibilities of GenAI in developing teaching and learning materials. From drafting learning objectives and lesson plans to building rubrics and drafting quizzes, there are clearly a lot of ways GenAI could support instructors. However, many questions remain, notably with respect

Spotlight Good afternoon all, If you’ve been reading our AI-focused emails in the past few weeks, you’ll know that we’ve been noting that higher education institutions are mainly focusing their policy efforts on developing guidelines about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching and learning (T&L), while staying relatively silent on how to (or not) integrate AI in business operations. However, the lack of guidance doesn’t mean AI isn’t being increasingly used for operational purposes in institutions. We’ve already shared many

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In the planning of our series of AI Roundtable meetings, we at HESA towers are currently hoping to host a session on student perspectives during the month of November. We’d appreciate your help in connecting us with student leaders from your institutions that would be open to share their views on how AI is impacting higher education. We’re looking for diverse perspectives, including voices from graduate students. Let us know if you think of anyone by

Spotlight Good afternoon all, I hope that the first week back on campus was a good one.  Earlier in August, we, at HESA towers, sent a survey to provosts and VPAs to get a better sense of where institutions were at with respect to building policies and guidelines regarding AI. (We’re still collecting answers, so if you had forgotten about it and it’s been lying around in your email box, you can still get to it.) From the early answers

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks so much to the 185 of you who joined us last Monday for our AI Roundtable meeting on Governance and policy. We’re encouraged by the continued strong interest on this issue and we’re pleased to continue hosting these sessions and populating our Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education. It was striking in Monday’s session to hear the inter-institutional disparities with respect to the pace of policymaking. Some institutions are already working on developing