Saul Carliner is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Education. He is a generalist in learning and communication, with substantial tenures in both academia and industry in both fields. His teaching and research focus on the design of instructional and informational materials (especially in emerging genres and media), the management of groups that produce these materials, and related issues of policy and professionalism.
Sessions in which Saul Carliner participates
Wednesday 12 February, 2025
Can AI assist faculty with writing objective (multiple choice) questions? If it can, can it do so in the recommended criterion-referenced way? What is the quality of the resulting questions? Can this reduce work for the instructor?In this session for instructors and pedagogical counsellors, we present the case study of one pilot project: a learning assessment in an undergraduate course. We describe the approvals received for the effort, then demonstrate the tools used to generate test ...
Although some futurists predict that AI will replace jobs, more predict that people will work along side AI as AI becomes more integrated into our daily work processes. This case study explores how the team that produced the eConcordia course, Introduction to Training and Development (EDUC 240) worked alongside AI to produce the course.Specifically, we used AI to assist with a number of tasks:To produce various segments of scenarios, which helped to introduce learning conte...