Active Learning with AI: A Practical Guide

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.

About the Author :
Stephen M. Kosslyn was the Founding Dean and CAO of Minerva University, after having been chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, and Lindsley Professor at Harvard University and, following that, Director of CASBS at Stanford University. Most recently he was Professor of Practice at ASU. He has published 14 books and over 350 papers and has received numerous honors, including three honorary Doctorates and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Review :
"While the threats that AI platforms like ChatGPT pose to education have been very clear, the benefits have, for most educators, been harder to recognize, let alone implement. Kosslyn does a masterful job of laying out how AI can be used to support deep student learning, beginning with broad principles, then providing supporting details, all the way down to specific examples of prompts for lessons. This book not only has ready utility, it is an inspiration." Daniel T. Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia "In this timely book, Stephen Kosslyn synthesizes what's been established about effective teaching and learning -- and then demonstrates how to mobilize this knowledge in the world of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models." Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education "One of the world's foremost experts on the science of learning, Stephen Kosslyn has written the book we need at this important moment to guide the use of generative AI in ways that will improve teaching and learning. Teressa A. Cannon, Founding President, Minerva University "Get a cup of coffee, your favorite Generative AI program, and Kosslyn's meet-the-moment book. You will be captivated by exercising the mind-blowing examples of what you and AI can do together to support learners." Dan Schwartz, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University "The recent emergence of AI tools such as ChatGPT has potentially profound implications for education. Combining his expertise in cognitive psychology, hands-on experience as an educator, and engagement with AI, Stephen Kosslyn has provided an invaluable guide for fellow educators seeking to navigate this new terrain. I can't think of anyone else better suited to the task, and Kosslyn has delivered admirably with this timely, clearly written, and pragmatic volume." Daniel L. Schacter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers