Notes from a webinar organised by Eportfolio Australia on the topic of using AI to streamline constructive alignment and design portfolio-ready tasks.
The workshop is facilitated by Marty Sison who is a learning designer at Charles Darwin University.
The workshop outcomes are to use Gen AI to draft learning objectives from learning outcomes and content - then learning activities and following on with portfolio-ready tasks.
Steps to engage learners are to create learning objectives, then ensure there are learning checkpoints and follow through with learning portfolios.
Used a padlet activity to define learning design terms. Then shared how padlet can be used to check if students are meeting the learning objectives by putting their ratings into each week's learning objectives.
When AI is used, unit learning outcomes and content topics + prompt = learning objectives. Prompts were stored in a spread sheet, which was also formatted to collate the various responses and tables created by CoPilot. Advocated for using spreadsheets as it puts everything in one place.
Demonstrated how unit outcomes and content can be generated using Copilot running on ChatGPT5.0 including evaluating the AI responses backwards. Then learning objectives for each week can be generated.
Discussed learning checkpoints for active learning. Important to have assessment, feedback, external, internal feedback and help learners understand these. Should have authentic relating questions and/or concept reflection questions.
Demonstrated how the connected learning checkpoints and activities can be created using CoPilot. Questions and answers were provided.
The spreadsheet created can then be used in turn to create experiences that can be represented through a portfolio. The learning portfolio helps to make learning visible. It can capture both the knowledge attained and the paths taken, turning multiple ways of representing growth into persuasive evidence.
Learning portfolios can be used as a collection of evidence, triangulated to learning objectives and be am authentic narrative of learning /growth and a persuasive showcase.
Therefore, the learning outcomes + content topics + learning objectives + learning checkpoints + prompt = portfolio tasks to evidence learning.
Demonstrated how the previous items along with relevant prompt helps to generate a range of portfolio assessments.
For advise on prompt engineering, generally by grounded in your work. Always ask AI to evaluate and rationalise its decisions so that you can track things back. Control the output so that what is generated meets your needs and you do not have to reformate the AI response (e.g. table, column/row contents etc.) . Keep a record of the prompts so that you can recycle them.
Interesting presentation. Will need to have a good play with our own content to see how the workflow can be adapted to our needs.
