Events

KEYNOTE: ADAPTIVE APPROACHES TO USING GENERATIVE AI FOR TEAHING AND LEARNING

FEBRUARY 5, 2024 @ 2:00 PM CT | MUC BALLROOM OR ZOOM

Emerging generative AI tools like ChatGPT present intriguing opportunities to enhance writing instruction by helping learners manage cognitive load, develop fluency, and receive real-time formative feedback. This presentation will share strategies and compelling examples from across academic disciplines to illustrate productive ways faculty and students can engage and use generative AI in their learning communities.

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WORKSHOP: HOW TO TEACH WITH GENERATIVE AI: ENGAGING STUDENTS AND DESIGNING ACTIVITIES

FEBRUARY 6, 2024 @ 2:00 PM CT | MUC BALLROOM OR ZOOM

Participants in this workshop will learn about AI literacies and explore specific strategies to promote student skill development, learn how to promote responsible student AI use with the support of a student guide and scenario-based discussion activities, and design AI-enhanced learning activities for their diverse disciplines based on active learning and authentic assessment strategies.

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Link to Teaching with AI Guide for Instructors

PDF Version of Teaching with AI Guide for Instructors

ABOUT DR. ANDERS

Abram Anders is the Associate Director of the Student Innovation Center and an Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University.  He is an expert on using AI as a pedagogical tool and the ethical dilemmas surrounding the use of AI in higher education. Learn more at: abramanders.com.

APRIL 24 2023 @ 1:00 PM CT | FREEDOM FORUM CONFERENCE ROOM

Providing access to quality higher education is a priority for all of us, especially when learners are beyond the formal spaces and places of the physical campus—and especially when they are learning with us via asynchronous online courses.

In this presentation, you’ll discover the “step zero” that makes all of our online teaching efforts possible: access. When we focus our learning interactions on how our students get access to materials, each other, instructors, support services, and the community, we strengthen their sense of belonging and opportunity as learners.

Through the universal design for learning (UDL) framework, you’ll learn concrete steps that you can take tomorrow that help to lower barriers, anxiety, and stress—for your students and for you. Come learn how to take some work off your plate as you engage with USD students.

ABOUT DR. TOBIN

Thomas J. Tobin is an internationally recognized scholar, author, and speaker on quality in technology-mediated education, especially copyright, evaluation of teaching practice, academic integrity, and accessibility/universal design for learning.