Active Learning with AI: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Kosslyn, Stephen M.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798989214006

Publisher: Alinea Learning, 2023

Synopsis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has immense potential to enhance teaching and learning in countless ways. However, for educators and course designers, this potential can seem overwhelming, confusing and even frightening. In this book, researcher and educational innovator Stephen M. Kosslyn demystifies AI and its relationship to education, and he provides a wealth of step-by-step illustrations and examples to help instructors and course designers both understand AI concepts and use them to build stimulating active learning exercises and lesson plans. Whether you teach a course in a traditional classroom, online, or with a hybrid approach, this book will inform and empower you to create more engaging, personalized, and scalable learning experiences for your students.

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About the Author

Stephen M. Kosslyn is the Founder and President of Active Learning Sciences, Inc. He was the Founder, CEO, and Chief Academic Officer of Foundry College. Prior to that, he was the Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute (now the fully accredited Minerva University). He previously served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University after having spent three decades on the faculty of Harvard University, serving as chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, and the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology. While at Harvard, he was also co-director of the Mind of the Market Lab at Harvard Business School and a member of the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in psychology. Kosslyn's research focuses on the science of learning, the nature of visual cognition, and visual communication. He has authored or co-authored 14 books and over 350 published papers on these topics. Kosslyn has received numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three honorary Doctorates (University of Caen, University of Paris Descartes, Bern University), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alinea Learning
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798989214006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246