Alexandra Penn, Instructional Designer, Harmonize
How can faculty design assignments that still feel meaningful when students have access to generative AI? In this session, we’ll focus on practical strategies for creating more authentic, process-based assignments that make learning more visible through reflection, multimedia, peer interaction, revision, annotation, and feedback.
Rather than focusing on AI detection or policing, we’ll explore ways to design assignments where students show their thinking and engage more deeply with the work. The session will include examples from Harmonize, but the ideas can be applied across a variety of teaching contexts and platforms.
Alex Penn is an instructional designer at Harmonize, where she helps faculty turn online learning from “technically functional” into something more engaging, accessible, and genuinely useful for students. She designs and runs trainings, builds demos, writes documentation, and helps instructors make educational technology feel a little less mysterious and a lot more practical (and fun!). Alex lives in Indianapolis with her spouse, three kids, one dog, one cat, and a shared family calendar that is doing its best. When she is not working, she is usually reading, listening to a podcast or audiobook, or heading out on a city adventure with her family.
