The Design Forward program strategy assisted me to learn about myself as an educator and how I bring my knowledge and “baggage” from the past to my classroom. Eye opening and inspirational are two ways of explaining my experience over the past year with this interactive design process. From the Opening session at SPIN to the online modules platform and hands on workbook, the experience assisted me to shake off the constraints of my training and build new learning experiences. Both for myself, myself as an educator and for my students.

My class student evaluations for the INCP course I designed while taking the Design Forward course were excellent. Students enjoyed the class format and content while meeting the objectives of the course. They utilized AI for some basic tasks, and we developed a concept map on the positive and negative aspects of AI. Discussion and reflection were genuine and intriguing. Students can always give insight and meaning to topics and they did not disappoint with the topic of AI or in the Ut Prosim INCP course.