The 2×2 grid
I plot every graded item by two questions: was AI help allowed, and am I scoring the product or the student? Live in C to learn. Cash the grade in D to certify.
The grid →Chris Wasden, EdD · Professional in Residence, Finance
AI didn’t break teaching. It showed us what a finished file was never proving.
Design backward from what students must do on their own, and let AI help with everything on the way there.
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The crisis came first
AI didn’t create the problem. It made it impossible to ignore.
It was already broken.
A polished take-home file never proved who could do the work. It only proved that the work got done.
AI sped it up.
Grade the polished file, and you’re grading the AI.
Policing isn’t a plan.
Faculty spend their hours policing rather than teaching, and students spend theirs hiding what they are already doing. Redesign is the way out.
The call
Rethink. Restructure. Reauthor. Rebuild.
An AI policy pasted into a syllabus doesn’t change what a grade measures. The course itself has to be rebuilt, starting from what students must do on their own, and then working backward to every session and assignment.
MIT reached the same conclusion about its own courses this August:
“Every subject taught at MIT will likely need to be reexamined and potentially revamped to make sure that how students are being taught, what they’re learning, and how they’re assessed are ‘AI-aware.’”
MIT Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning and Research Training, final report, August 13, 2026, §1.1, p. 3. Read the report
The proof
How I teach FIN 6150
No textbook. AI on every assignment. Using it is never cheating.
The help fades
Full support early, shared in the middle, light late, then AI off. The questions are anchored in each student’s own work: “Your Energy segment collects in 70 days and Automotive in 12. Why?”
The scaffold →Defend it live
Classmates score memos blind and write one hard question each. The team defends in a five-minute Q&A with AI off, then revises. The revision carries the points.
The defense →The LLM council
Students ask three models the same question and compare the answers. Agreement between models is not evidence: three models agreeing is one source, counted three times.
The council →The honest part: this way of teaching had a learning curve, and my students told me so. When I offered one section the same course, same points and same work without the AI tutors, all 11 students who answered chose to keep them (one section, so a small sample).
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Talks
- Upcoming · How I Teach FIN 6150 · Woodbury School of Business · October 30, 2026
- Measured Against MIT · FEA 2026, Session 3.4 · October 1, 2026
- The 17-Year Gap: Innovation in the Shadow of OBBBA · Utah HIMSS 2026 keynote, Ogden · April 24, 2026