In this "10, 10, 10" session, Dr. Alex Payne, a Biology lecturer at Baylor University, demonstrates how to leverage Artificial Intelligence to streamline the "Backwards Design" process in higher education.
Learn how to use AI to perform a comprehensive course audit in minutes, ensuring that what you teach and what you test stay perfectly aligned with your learning outcomes.
📍 Key Highlights:
- The Power of Alignment: Why aligning Learning Objectives (LOs) with content and assessment improves student retention, transparency, and perceived fairness.
- Identifying the "Big Three" Problems: 1. Testing materials that weren't taught. 2. Teaching materials that aren't assessed. 3. Objectives that don't reflect actual course reality.
- The 4-Step AI Workflow: A simple process for collecting materials, prompting the AI, and auditing your syllabus and exams.
- Actionable Data: How to use AI feedback to identify "over-tested" topics, missing objectives, and gaps in lecture content.
🛠 Why Use This Approach?
Course design is iterative and often overwhelming. Dr. Payne explains how AI acts as a diagnostic partner, reducing the cognitive load for educators and providing a clear, actionable roadmap for course refinement.
"AI is a great way to bring down the stress and give you a clear, actionable step in your next steps of iterative course design." — Dr. Alex Payne