--- title: Live Webinar - Designing AI Use to Deepen Engagement | Packback description: "Stop debating if AI is \"cheating\" and start building a policy. Join Packback & The League of Innovation for a webinar on AI and academic integrity. Get a practical framework for ethical policy and pedagogy." image: https://resources.packback.co/hubfs/human%20centered%20ai-1.png --- [![Packback](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Packback_May2021/images/logo_packback-full.png?width=900&name=logo_packback-full.png "Packback")](https://www.packback.co/) ✦ ON-DEMAND WEBINAR # Human-Centered AI in Higher Education # Designing for Engagement: Using AI to Strengthen Learning, Motivation, and Mastery 📣 ON-DEMAND ## Register On-Demand 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. ### What You’ll Get From Viewing This Session - **How to connect AI to proven pedagogy**: Use mastery learning, inquiry, and CoI models to reinforce curiosity and persistence. - **How AI can reignite engagement:** See how the right feedback loops and reflective prompts can drive behavioral, cognitive, and social engagement that lasts beyond the assignment. - **Where AI helps and where it hurts:** Learn to recognize when AI supports growth and when it shortcuts the learning process. - **A framework for intentional design:** Learn a practical, five-step method to align AI with authentic engagement and outcomes. ## Meet Your Hosts ![Craig Headshot](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Craig%20Headshot.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=Craig%20Headshot.jpg "Craig Headshot") **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.   ![oliver-short-headshot](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/oliver-short-headshot.jpeg?width=150&height=150&name=oliver-short-headshot.jpeg "oliver-short-headshot") **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.   ## About the "Human-Centered AI in Education" Series 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. ![human centered ai](https://resources.packback.co/hubfs/human%20centered%20ai.png "human centered ai") - What Educators Get Wrong About AI (And How to Get It Right) | Available On-Demand - Teaching With Integrity in the Age of AI: How to Build Your Ethical Framework | Nov 20, 2025 - **Where AI Helps and Where It Hurts: Designing AI Use to Deepen Engagement** | Dec 18, 2025 - Supporting Original Thinking and Self-Regulated Learning | February 2026 - Panel: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century Workplace | March 2026 Stop debating and start building. Get the framework you need to teach with integrity. 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