📅 Thursday, December 18th 🕛12:00pm CT/1:00pm ET
AI is already shaping how students learn.
The question is whether it’s doing it well.
AI is already reshaping how students learn, how instructors teach, and how institutions define success. Everyone feels the impact, but few feel fully equipped to use AI in ways that actually strengthen learning.
Across higher education, leaders are balancing opportunity with risk. AI can accelerate feedback, streamline grading, and boost engagement, but if it’s not grounded in solid pedagogy, it can just as easily weaken curiosity, motivation, and critical thinking.
This session in Packback’s five-part AI training series shows how to align AI with what research tells us about great teaching and learning. You’ll explore how mastery learning, inquiry-based instruction, and the Community of Inquiry framework can guide AI use that deepens engagement and strengthens the human side of learning.
Exclusive bonus for live attendees:
Get the Engagement Design Planner, a worksheet that helps you map AI-supported activities to cognitive, behavioral, and social engagement goals
Host: Dr. Craig Booth
Chief Technology Officer,
Packback
Dr. Booth is the Chief Technology Officer at Packback and a former computational astrophysicist with a PhD from Durham University. He has spent the last eight years building educational AI. He transitioned to EdTech after a decade as a research astrophysicist, bringing a deep background in high-performance computing and data to his work building responsible AI for the classroom.
Co-Host: Oliver Short
Director of Product,
Packback
Oliver Short is the Director of Product & Design at Packback with a passion for designing delightful, efficacious learning experiences for faculty and students across both K-12 and Higher Education. Based in Denver, Colorado, Oliver leads the Product Management and User Experience Design teams at Packback. Previously, he led product vision and strategy at Bank of America and Discovery Education Experience.
This free, five-module course helps you make sense of AI in the classroom, grounded in the latest research on pedagogy, ethics, and student learning. You’ll learn how to use AI responsibly, design better assignments, and support student originality with practical toolkits and ready-to-use resources provided in every session. Whether you’re excited or uncertain, this course gives you clarity, confidence, and control.
Stop debating and start building. Get the framework you need to teach with integrity.
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