AI Retrofit: Asynchronous and Free For Everyone

This year I worked with Information Technology Consultants joshuah whittinghill and Allison McConnell to develop a 100% asynchronous Canvas shell. The course guides faculty in a step-by-step process of redesigning their existing courses in a world of generative Artificial Intelligence. We created original material for this and drew on existing resources from Nik Janos, Brett Christie and his team at Alchemy, Danny Liu, Ethan Mollick, Inara Scott, Ellie Ertle, joshuah’s own AI web series at Chico State, Dereck Bruff, Bonni Stachowiak, and more. 

The premise of the course is that while our focus in higher education has been around the disruption to existing assignments we have not done enough to adapt to how the world has changed. This work is difficult–it is also impossible without the disciplinary expertise you provide. Course redesign work needs to be done at enormous scale and we knew we could not meet the demand at Chico so we made this to help folks along the way.

Smart people would probably sell access to this, but we are bad at capitalism so here it is for free: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/4RGYJ8. Just click on the link to enroll in the free public canvas version of the course (you will need to create a free account). If you want your own exported file please email me at zjustus@csuchico.edu. 

One final note, this was originally designed for the faculty at Chico State so there might be some Chico specific acronyms or language here and there. We think you will find it helpful regardless.