Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
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Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
Navigating AI’s Evolving Role in Teaching and Learning
Designed for Learning
33 minutes
9 months ago
Navigating AI’s Evolving Role in Teaching and Learning
Although artificial intelligence has been part of higher education for a couple of years now, faculty are still struggling with what this development means for themselves, their students, their courses—and especially their assessments. Notre Dame Learning recently launched the Lab for AI in Teaching & Learning (LAITL), led by Alex Ambrose of our Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, to help instructors navigate this terrain. Alex is an eloquent spokesperson for the argument that by buildi...
Designed for Learning
Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
