CTL & ASSETT Newsletter - November 2023

The rapid popularization of generative AI tools has created new challenges and opportunities for educators. It has also raised complex questions about how we can best prepare our students to work with AI responsibly and ethically in their future professional, personal, and civic lives. That is why the Center for Teaching & Learning is committed to providing the CU community with the support and resources they need to enter boldly into teaching and learning in the age of AI. While exploring the use of generative AI with curiosity and interest, we also ask critical questions about its limitations and potential misuses. Most importantly, we are reminded that, as human operators, we are all in this together! Please join us in the unfolding experience of understanding teaching and learning with emergent AI technology.

• Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field
• How generative AI works
• Ethical AI for teaching and learning
• Best practices for designing equity-minded summative assessments
• Formative assessment plays a crucial role in equity-minded assessment

As a Political Science graduate student, Dr. Szentkirályi spent two years (2012-2014) serving as a Lead Graduate Student in the former Graduate Teacher Program (now housed within the Center for Teaching & Learning), working to refine his teaching skills and to promote teaching excellence among graduate students in his home department. It was through this meaningful experience that he discovered the importance of student-centered pedagogy and deliberately striving to accommodate the diverse needs of our students and to effectively teach to their different strengths to help them achieve their potential. This foundational principle has defined Dr. Szentkirályi’s interdisciplinary teaching career at CU. Click here to read more about his formal studies, current research interests, and teaching career.

Course Design Series

• Triumphs and Challenges Encountered by Educators while Using Canvas on Tuesday, November 7 from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MT
• Explore the Dynamic Intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Course Design on Tuesday, December 5 from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MT

Online Teaching Community of Practice (OCoP), Join us on Zoom from 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. MT for as many of the sessions below that you are able to!

• Wednesday, November 8
• Wednesday, December 13

AI Community of Practice, Fall Series, Join us on Zoom from 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. MT for the below sessions!

• November 14, 2023
• December 5, 2023

Inclusive Community of Practice (ICoP) - Mental Health and Optimizing Self-care, Join us on Zoom on Thursday, November 15 from from 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MT

Ungrading: Alternative Grading Series on Thursday, November 16 from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. MT

Creating an Accessible Learning Environment in Canvas Series - Canvas Accessibility on November 16 from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MT

Inclusive Research Mentoring Grads and Postdocs Session 4: Promoting Independence on Thursday, November 30 from 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. MT

Inclusive Research Mentoring Faculty Session 4: Promoting Independence on Friday, December 1 from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MT

CU Dialogues is excited to be offering a new micro-credential workshop series to CU Boulder graduate students. The Spring 2024 DEI-Informed Dialogic Pedagogy workshop series will be offered to up to 20 graduate student instructors and will meet over the course of 10 weeks. Click here to learn more.

How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.

Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, and advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal research, and analyzing data, are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing?

Join CTL Professional Development Lead Preston Cumming alongside instructors of all levels to read and discuss Joseph E. Aoun’s book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence during the Spring 2024 Book Club and answer just that. The group will meet weekly on Wednesdays from January 31-March 6, 10:00-11:00 am Mountain Time. Book club will be hosted remotely via Zoom. Click here to register.

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