AI Design and Development Faculty Executive Summary

Active Engagement And Reinforcement
(aer)

What Is AER?

AER (Active Engagement and Reinforcement) is an AI-powered interactive tool designed to transform passive content consumption into active learning. When embedded within video-based course materials, AER prompts students to engage with key concepts through structured prompts and receive targeted AI-driven feedback. This helps ensure that students not only watch course content but also process, synthesize, and apply what they’ve learned.

How AER Supports Student Engagement

AER enhances learning by:

Encouraging Active Participation: Instead of passively watching a lecture, students engage with structured reflection prompts that reinforce key ideas.
Strengthening Conceptual Understanding: AER provides immediate, personalized feedback to correct misconceptions and deepen comprehension.
Supporting Critical Thinking: AER allows faculty and instructional designers to craft targeted, content-specific questions, helping students make connections, analyze implications, and articulate nuanced responses.
Improving Retention: By prompting students to recall and reflect on material, AER reinforces learning in a way that improves long-term retention.

Role-play Simulation

What Is a Role-Play Simulation?

Role-Play Simulations (Simulations) are AI-powered interactive tools that guide students through realistic, decision-driven scenarios, providing personalized feedback and coaching based exclusively on faculty-authored course content. Simulations allow students to engage in structured role-play, where they make choices, receive guidance, and refine their approach in a low-risk, AI-supported environment.

How Simulations Support Student Engagement

Simulations are designed to provide students with authentic practice opportunities in areas where decision-making, communication, and nuanced judgment are critical. This approach enhances learning by:

Simulating Real-World Scenarios: Students engage in interactive role play that mirrors the types of challenges they may face in their careers.
Providing Real-Time Feedback: AI delivers context-rich feedback that references course materials, reinforcing key concepts and improving understanding.
Offering AI Coaching: If students make mistakes or go off-topic, AI trained exclusively on course content can help guide them back on track.
Ensuring Mastery of Learning Objectives: Students are encouraged to continue engaging with the Simulation until they demonstrate a sufficient understanding of course concepts.

Codio Coach Ai

What Is Codio Coach?

Codio Coach is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to support students as they work through programming challenges in Codio. This built-in tool helps students understand and learn from coding errors without directly providing solutions, ensuring they engage in meaningful problem solving. By offering immediate, structured explanations of error messages, Codio Coach AI helps students avoid frustration, develop debugging skills, and stay engaged in their coding exercises.

How Codio Coach AI Supports Student Engagement

Codio Coach AI enhances learning by:

Providing Immediate, Targeted Support: Students no longer have to wait for facilitator feedback on routine errors, allowing them to stay in productive problem-solving mode.
Enhancing Conceptual Understanding: The AI explains not just the error but the underlying concepts behind it, reinforcing key programming principles.
Encouraging Independent Debugging: Instead of giving students the answer, Codio Coach AI guides them toward a solution, maintaining the challenge while preventing unnecessary roadblocks.
Ensuring Mastery of Coding Concepts: Students must use their understanding to fix errors themselves, helping them develop deeper programming skills.

Ai Facilitator Feedback Tool

What Is the AI Facilitator Feedback Tool?

The Facilitator Feedback Tool is an AI-powered assistant designed to streamline and enhance the feedback process for course projects. This tool analyzes student submissions using assignment criteria and course content to generate suggested talking points. These AI-generated insights serve as a starting point for facilitators, who then modify, refine, and personalize the feedback based on their expertise. Additionally, an optional AI-powered language enhancement feature helps ensure that final feedback is clear, professional, and engaging.

How the AI Facilitator Feedback Tool Supports Student Engagement

This tool enhances learning by:

Improving Feedback Quality and Consistency: AI-generated suggestions help ensure that students receive detailed, meaningful feedback that aligns with course expectations, typing feedback to specific content within the course.
Enhancing Efficiency Without Replacing Expertise: Facilitators spend less time drafting initial feedback and more time customizing and personalizing comments to support student growth.
Ensuring Clear and Constructive Communication: The optional AI-powered language enhancement feature helps facilitators refine tone, grammar, and clarity to make feedback more engaging and effective.
Maintaining High-Touch, Facilitator-Guided Feedback: AI suggestions are not auto-generated responses; facilitators remain in full control of the final feedback students receive.

Ai-powered Localization

What Is AI-Powered Localization?

Our AI-Powered Localization initiative leverages Kaltura’s API, OpenAI’s API, and AWS Lambda Step Functions to provide low-cost, scalable video caption translations across multiple languages. This system enables the seamless, automated translation of video captions, ensuring that course content is more accessible and inclusive for diverse global learners.

This solution allows us to process large volumes of translation requests efficiently, scaling as needed without performance issues. By automating the workflow, we can provide high-quality, AI-generated captions in multiple languages, making learning materials more accessible without the delays and costs of traditional translation methods.

How AI-Powered Localization Supports Student Engagement

This initiative enhances learning by:

Expanding Global Access: Non-English-speaking students can engage more fully with video-based course content through high-quality translated captions.
Providing Scalable, Cost-Effective Translations: Our AI-powered approach ensures efficient and rapid caption translation without excessive manual effort or cost.
Maintaining Accuracy and Readability: The AI translation model is optimized for caption translation, ensuring natural, context-aware phrasing rather than rigid, word-for-word translation.
Seamless Integration Into Course Videos: Translations are automatically added as caption files in the Kaltura Management Console (KMC), ensuring a frictionless experience for faculty and students.