Daniel Moscoe

As Director of Academic and Faculty Affairs for RIT Certified, I love helping bring to life the passion and expertise of our subject matter experts in courses that help students advance their careers. As a math teacher for over a decade, I helped students think computationally and communicate their thinking using narratives, diagrams, code, or mathematical notation. In 2021, I earned an MS in Data Science and joined RIT in 2022. Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, meditation, and RIT hockey.

1. How do you use AI in your teaching, and what are your favorite resources?

At RIT Certified, we are developing certificate programs in AI-Driven Design and Applied Generative AI. These Mastery Certificates will help students enhance their creative process and develop the practical skills necessary to take on leadership roles in AI initiatives within their organizations. We are in the early stages of experimenting with AI as an additional source of feedback for students as they develop professional portfolio pieces. One great resource for this is Bongo. In my personal learning, Google Gemini has been a great conversation partner as I practice my Spanish.

2. Can you share or describe an example or two of an AI-related assignment?

In our AI-Driven Design program, students complete an AI Workflow Integration Design project. Students use AI to create a design solution, demonstrating their “ability to leverage AI for tasks such as automation, visualization, ideation, UX research, and communication.” I also think there’s great potential in using AI in the math classroom to help students learn from errors: AI could generate subtly erroneous arguments or solutions, and students could identify errors, explain them, and correct them, potentially in conversation with the AI.

3. What do you tell students about using AI?

We encourage students to explore AI tools within the bounds of academic integrity. Where those boundaries are not clear, we suggest a conversation with the student’s instructor. Ultimately, our goal is to help students utilize AI in their courses similarly to how they would use it at work and to maintain an ongoing dialogue with classmates and instructors about how to use AI to enhance learning.

4. What challenges, if any, have you had with AI in your courses?

Because tools are changing so rapidly, we have had to think in new ways about developing courses that will remain current, either by being tool agnostic or by including modular tool-specific content that can be easily updated or replaced with new developments.

5. How do you think AI has or will impact your domain?

AI will impact professional training and workforce development by offering more personalized support within courses and by offering instructors greater insight into the progress and needs of their students. For students who are changing careers or just starting out, AI could help explain new industries and job roles available to them, and it could highlight specific courses of study based on students’ expressed interests, skills, or experiences. Overall, AI can offer students a clearer path and always-available, personalized support as they begin or advance their work lives.