Project-Based Learning in the Age of AI: Designing Assignments That Hold Up

Sent on behalf of the Faculty Center

To FSC Faculty:

What happens when an assignment can be completed by AI without the student making any meaningful decisions? In this hands-on workshop, faculty will explore how principles from project-based learning and design thinking can help us rethink assignments for the age of generative AI. Participants will bring an existing assignment, project, or learning objective and work through a practical framework for redesigning it around process, iteration, decision-making, and evidence of learning. We will consider both AI-resistant and AI-integrated approaches and use AI itself as a tool for testing and developing stronger assignments.

This workshop will be hosted by Michael Berrell, assistant professor of visual communications.

What to bring:

One assignment, project, or learning objective from a course you teach that does not currently use AI.
If possible, a laptop with the AI app of your choosing installed.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Faculty Center, Greenley 206

Kindly RSVP by Friday, September 25, at our event page.

Jennifer Jaiswal
Director of the Faculty Center

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