Educators across Minnesota State are actively exploring how the growing availability of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing teaching, learning, and assessment in our courses. While AI presents new opportunities, it also raises important questions about how best to evaluate student learning, maintain academic integrity, and design meaningful learning experiences.
Share Your Ideas
To support this ongoing conversation, the Distance Education Committee of the ASA Technology Council is seeking ideas, examples, artifacts, and resources related to assessment in online learning environments. Through this effort, the committee hopes to identify and examine promising practices, innovative approaches, and lessons learned that help demonstrate student learning, support instructional quality, and remain practical and sustainable for faculty to implement at scale.
Whether you have redesigned an assignment, developed an assessment strategy, created guidance for responsible AI use, experimented with alternative grading approaches, or found effective ways to balance authentic assessment with faculty workload, we invite you to share your experiences and insights.
The committee is interested in both successes and challenges as educators adapt to the opportunities and realities of AI use in teaching and learning.
There are several ways to contribute:
- Submit Your Idea – Review the call for ideas and submit your contribution through the Microsoft Form by December 1, 2026.
- Join a Conversation with Colleagues – Participate in a facilitated discussion about assessment and learning in a world with AI.
- Share a Recording – Create a webcam or screen recording demonstrating an assignment, assessment strategy, practice, or resource that you have attempted. Send a link to your video to ned+ai@minnstate.edu.
When sharing your recording, please consider addressing:- What role AI was intended to play in your example?
- AI use was discouraged or prohibited
- AI use was limited to specific purposes or circumstances
- AI use was intentionally integrated into the learning activity or assessment
- What evidence or observations suggest that the practice supported or hindered students’ achievement of the desired learning outcomes?
- What role AI was intended to play in your example?
- Contact Your Committee Representative – Share your ideas directly with your bargaining union representative serving on the Distance Education Committee.
- IFO – Rey Galope and Maegan Jones
- MSCF – Lori Anderson and Colleen Wood
- ASF – Marie Slotemaker
- MAPE – Elizabeth Harsma
- AFSCME – Melissa DeGidio
The committee recognizes that course materials, assessments, and instructional resources represent significant professional and intellectual contributions, and we want to ensure faculty can participate with confidence that their ownership rights will be respected throughout the process. Your contributions will help inform a systemwide exploration of assessment practices that support student learning in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Thank you for considering this opportunity to share your expertise with colleagues across Minnesota State.
Distance Education Committee
Minnesota State
Contact
Email ned+ai@minnstate.edu with questions.