Start With One Assignment, Not Your Entire Course
AI has exposed a challenge that may have existed long before generative AI: a completed assignment is not necessarily the same thing as evidence of learning. Rather than redesigning an entire course, faculty can begin with a single assignment and ask a simple question: What evidence of learning am I actually looking for? Small changes that make student thinking more visible can often have a surprisingly large impact.
What Counts as Evidence of Learning?
AI is forcing a question that higher education has been able to avoid for a long time: What actually counts as evidence that learning happened? Because for years, many assignments have focused heavily on the final product: