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Spring 2024 Workshops

**Please note, all sessions will be recorded and posted on our Canvas page**

AI: Practical Application to your Teaching Virtual Workshop Series

GC3 is offering a series of workshops on AI and CETI and the Provost’s Office are
excited to be able to cover the cost of attendance for 2 sessions to anyone interested in attending. The sessions with dates/times and descriptions are below. Following that info are links for registration. Registration for the April 2 session is due March 28, the other sessions are due April 4th. 

Experts from colleges and universities from across the country are presenting the following sessions:

  • Large Language Models Assisting Large Learning Methods: Gen AI as your Own Personal TA
  • Cultivating Moments of Practice and Inquiry: Humanities-Specific Uses of AI in the Classroom 
  • Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Active Learning 
  • Using AI to Increase Accessibility & Inclusion
  • Committed to STRIVE: Leveraging AI for Microteaching and Active Learning
    Engagement

All sessions are 12 noon to 1 PM on the designated date.

Large Language Models Assisting Large Learning Methods: Gen AI as your Own Personal TA

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - registration deadline Friday, March 29, 2024

George Handley & Art Brownlow, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

During ChatGPT’s first year of widespread availability, much was made of integrity concerns, but its role as a personal teaching assistant remained somewhat overlooked. This presentation will demonstrate how large language models like ChatGPT can aid in course preparation, design classroom activities, differentiated coursework, and assist in content assessment. We will cover LLMs' capabilities in generating critical thinking prompts, designing various learning assignments, creating instructional materials, providing student feedback, and evaluating student work. The session includes a hands-on component for attendees to customize AI tools to their own teaching needs, thereby enhancing their productivity, efficiency, and pedagogical effectiveness.

Cultivating Moments of Practice and Inquiry: Humanities-Specific Uses of AI in the Classroom

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - registration deadline Friday, March 29, 2024

Jill Abney, University of Kentucky

Studying humanities content can be difficult for students inexperienced with self-prompting and reflection. Social construction of knowledge is often limited to teacher-directed conversations/assignments or out-of-class activities that depend on social connection and timely participation by peers. Instructors can utilize ChatGPT and similar tools to help students study concepts in the humanities conversationally in ways that push them beyond memorization. Through live demonstration and shared reflection, this session will explore tips for using GPT-4-based tools as a study partner to support deeper learning in the humanities while also making space for critical inquiry into those tools and how they work.

Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Active Learning

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - registration deadline Friday, April 5, 2024

Lucas Tambasco, Rena Levitt & Dollie Davis, Minerva University

The main goal of this interactive session is to present and discuss the use of generative AI tools in active learning to enhance student outcomes. We will briefly introduce how we use the science of learning at our institution to design active courses, and how we intend to update our classes given recent technological advancements. Participants will be broken into groups according to their areas of expertise to discuss incorporating AI tools into their curriculum. At the end of this session, participants will have actionable plans to include effective active learning techniques at their home institution by leveraging AI support.

Using AI to Increase Accessibility & Inclusion

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – registration deadline Friday April 5, 2024

Andy Sheppard, Santa Fe College

AI tools like ChatGPT can convert “auto-captions” into more increasingly accurate transcripts with appropriate capitalization and punctuation almost on par with professional captioning providers. And AI-image generation tools provide us with a means to create more diverse imagery. By leveraging AI, instructional materials can be made more inclusive and empower learners with disabilities to more fully engage with educational content. This presentation will demonstrate two tools for achieving these ends.

Committed to STRIVE: Leveraging AI for Microteaching and Active Learning Engagement

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – registration deadline Friday April 12, 2024

Florence Williams, University of Central Florida

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can offer different approaches depending on the end user’s needs. One such approach is a framework that adapts to user needs across disciplines. This lightning session utilizes the STRIVE (Search, Teach, Review, Innovate, Vary, Evaluate) framework to encourage AI use for micro-teaching and student engagement. In each facet of the frame, we will explore discipline-specific active learning strategies and micro-teaching opportunities using the affordances of the AI revolution and reflect on consistent implementation for positive results.

Registration for 2 sessions for NKU Educators


PD INSTITUTES

Professional development Institutes are a new offering from CETI. Our vision is that we will engage faculty through a process of development that spans aspects of teaching in-person, hybrid and online. Our institutes will all have limited seating, be available in-person and online. Some of the institutes will be prerequisites for others. We will begin by offering 2-3 per semester including 1-2 over the summer.

For each institute completed, educators are eligible for a $500 stipend. If interested, faculty may apply for a $1,000 stipend after completing Guided Course Development and submitting a redeveloped/newly developed course for review and peer observation of the course being taught.

Course Design Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to help you focus on the process of designing student-friendly, technology-enhanced courses. We will start with backward design and course mapping, then cover creating an effective syllabus, developing effective assessments, designing an equitable and accessible course, creating student-friendly lessons and materials, building instructor presence, incorporating peer learning, and finalizing the course design. You will apply what you learn by developing components of your own course and receiving feedback from your peers and facilitators. 

Accelerated summer session: May 13-17th. More info to come for registration, exact dates, and times.

AI institute

Join us for one of two accelerated summer sessions, where we will cover reframing how we teach in the realm of AI, incorporating AI into your class in a meaningful way, testing various AI tools and prompts, hear from faculty who have begun incorporating AI in their classes, and work to develop assignments using AI.

More info to come for registration, exact dates, and times.  

May session: Week of May 20, 2024

June session: Week of June 3, 2024

Future Semester Sessions:

  • Pedagogy Development
  • HIPs/Experiential Learning
  • Guided Course Development (Fall 2024)

 

Online Trainings

Go2Knowledge Signin

Go2Knowledge Live Webinars

  • ChatGPT in the Classroom: Embracing AI for Enhanced Teaching and Learning. Feb 7th 3pm
  • MaximizingTeaching Potential: The Power of Student Data & Feedback in Education. Feb 8th 3pm

Online Asynchronous Trainings

CETI has utilized the Go2Knowledge on demand asynchronous trainings to develop a
series of trainings that can be accessed on your schedule through our Canvas
page
. Each group of trainings covers topics around a central theme, and some
are prerequisites for other groups. Currently, the topics include:

  • Foundational Teaching 1,2 &3,   
  • Strategies for Online Teaching,
  • Online Teaching Fundamentals 1 & 2,
  • Increasing Student Engagement Online,
  • DEI in the Classroom,
  • DEI Beyond the Classroom,
  • Active Learning 1 & 2,
  • Mental Health on Campus, and
  • Mental Health for Educators

As you finish each group of trainings, you will receive a badge indicating completion.

TalentED Trainings

CETI has also built some self-driven trainings for TalentED that you can access anytime! If you need an introduction (or refresher) on using Canvas to help deliver your course content, or you want to learn how to use Kaltura, we have you covered! Learn how to navigate Canvas, set up your assignments, quizzes, and discussion boards, and create and edit videos with Kaltura, all at your own pace.


 

Webinars from External Partners

Canvas/Instructure

Canvas invites educators and administrators to their free monthly webinar series. Check out their list of sessions and registration information to sign up!

Respondus

Respondus (Lockdown Browser, StudyMate, and more) hosts webinars about their products monthly. You can find information and registration links at their website.

Turnitin

Turnitin hosts webinars for all users in multiple languages, and their list of offerings can be found here.