Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Rick Dakan is a professor at Ringling College of Art & Design, where he oversees the new Creative Technologies BFA program, serves as AI Coordinator, and is Co-Director of the Center for the Creative Economy. Rick worked as a start-up founder, writer, and game designer from 1995 to 2016 before joining Ringling College. In 2023 he headed the college’s AI Task Force and went on to oversee the development of its Undergraduate Certificate in AI and its Fundamentals of AI for Creatives professional certificate course. In collaboration with Prof. Joseph Feller from the University College Cork in Ireland, he has co-developed the 4D Framework for AI Fluency, which has been adopted by multiple colleges, universities, and businesses around the world.