AI Education Colloquium
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Zachary Dodds, Haym Hirsh, and Kiri Wagstaff, Cochairs
Technical Report WS-08-02
104 pp., $30.00
ISBN 978-1-57735-370-6
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The workshop on AI Education created a forum where teaching techniques, curricular resources, and innovations in teaching AI are shared broadly, with an overarching goal of improving AI education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. To this end, the workshop focused on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to the following:
- Educational resources, including syllabi, assignments, project ideas, and pedagogical strategies, related to teaching AI in postsecondary environments
- Multidisciplinary curricula highlighting the application of AI in other contexts (computational biology, algorithmic game theory, computational economics, and so on) or the theoretical concepts of roots of AI from other fields (philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, psychology)
- The use of robotics and other tangible media both in AI courses and elsewhere in the curriculum
- Software that assists the teaching/learning process — everything from software to help visualize search spaces and search algorithms, to software substrates that can be used by students to do projects
- Resources and strategies for teaching specific AI subareas or topics: machine learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, game playing, and many others
- Strategies for appropriately situating AI within a wider computer-science curriculum
- Ways to incorporate or address popular entertainment and media portrayal of AI (in movies, news, advertisements, new products, and so on)
- Real-world examples of successful AI deployments, described in sufficient detail to provide case studies and/or serve as useful springboards for other teachers
- Innovative means for integrating research as part of coursework in AI
This workshop was a centerpiece of the AAAI 2008 Teaching Forum, a series of AAAI events that created a “teaching track” through the conference. Four events constituted the Teaching Forum: this workshop, a video session track, a panel in the main technical program, and a subset of the conference's poster presentations.