Webinar: Authentic pedagogy in the age of AI (I)

A female professor in a classroom leading a discussion with her students

In this recorded webinar, participants learned how to incorporate authentic learning and assessment into their online courses in the brave new world of AI.

Missouri School of Journalism Professor Amy Simons shares her experience using VoiceThread to simulate newsroom meetings, and Missouri Online instructional designers show you how to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to develop an authentic assessment activity.

Recorded October 12, 2023.

Authors

Liz DuPlessis

Liz du Plessis, M.Ed., Ph.D.

Manager of Instructional Design

Dr. Liz du Plessis is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism (1999) and Indiana University's U.S. history doctoral program (2009). She discovered her love for distance education while teaching correspondence and online courses for Indiana University. She earned a master of education in information science and learning technologies from Mizzou in 2011. Since then, she has been an instructional designer for the California Community Colleges system, MU Health Care and Missouri Online. She now serves as an instructional design manager for Missouri Online and has taught as an adjunct online instructor for the MU Department of History.

Kirk Wilkins

Kirk Wilkins

Instructional Designer II

Kirk joined Missouri Online in June of 2023 after spending the last several years working in higher education. A former English teacher, he is committed to offering students a meaningful, engaging, and rich learning experience. His interests include authentic or alternative assessments, process-centered teaching, universal design for learning, effective feedback, and the intersections of learning with creativity, user experience design, multimedia, and artificial intelligence.