Now that AI can generate “products” faster than any human, I’ve become increasingly interested in process-oriented versus product-oriented teaching - especially tricky in distance education.

Traditionally, process-based pedagogy meant valuing the journey of learning over the final result. In practice, students are often asked to produce evidence of process: reflections, journals, drafts - and now annotations in their conversations with AI. In trying to document learning, we risk reproducing the very product orientation we claim to move away from.

Any assignment I can think of, AI can now generate as a polished “output” on demand.

So how do we get out of this loop?
My only idea for now is to:
- create authentic communicative spaces where learning happens through interaction rather than submission
- value traces of engagement that emerge naturally, rather than artifacts produced just to satisfy assessment.

I think there is an app for that, but it's costly. So I'll need to make do with the resources I have.

Big thanks to Jason Gulya for inspiring this. If you don't follow him, you should.