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Partnering with AI: Redefining Engagement in the Online Classroom
Get PDFThis session demonstrates how partnering with artificial intelligence can enhance student learning in online courses. Through practical examples from an online nutrition course, including AI-enhanced discussion prompts and role-play assessments, participants will explore the transformation from viewing AI as a potential threat to leveraging it as a powerful pedagogical tool. The session provides strategies for redesigning assignments that encourage meaningful AI partnerships rather than dependency. Participants will leave with concrete frameworks and tools for implementing AI partnerships in their own courses while maintaining academic integrity and promoting higher-order thinking skills
Moving Beyond Shiny and New: Teaching Future Teachers AI Tool Transparency and Limitations
Get PDFLesson plans, activities, assignments, emails - generative AI tools for K-12 teachers can create those and more! Despite the promises of AI, future teachers must consider critical issues related to data transparency, appropriate use, and accuracy. Join a guided discussion and tool investigations implemented in college classrooms to scaffold future teachers\u27 critical review of AI generated content. Activities and principles can be modified for different disciplines and contexts
Are You Smarter than an AI? A Game Show Approach to Introducing AI Literacy During New Student Orientation
No full textDuring Fall 2024 orientation week, Studio Coe, the University of Wyoming Libraries\u27 digital media lab, hosted a game-show activity introducing digital and AI literacy. Instead of focusing solely on media creation, we challenged students to critically analyze generative AI chatbot outputs and even compete against them. This engaging event showcased our innovative design process, creative use of AI, and insights into assessment. Join us as we share our struggles, successes, and lessons learned from crafting this interactive experience to inspire critical thinking in a fun, competitive format
Creating Authentic Online Learning Experiences with AI: Strategies from UCF\u27s Faculty Development Program
No full textAs AI has become integral to higher education, faculty need more than just technical skills - they need a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage these tools to enhance student learning, especially online learning. This session bridges this gap by showcasing proven strategies drawing from UCF\u27s flagship faculty development program IDL6543. This interactive session reveals practical strategies for integrating AI into online courses effectively and ethically. The session will cover approaches to course mapping, content creation, and community building that maintain authentic teaching presence. From this session, both novice and experienced online instructors will gain actionable strategies and practical skills to effectivity integrate AI into their courses
Teaching the Human Touch: Transforming Teamwork and Creativity in the Classroom
No full textThis session demonstrates how collaborative AI tools, such as BoodleBox, were used in a project-based social media marketing course to foster teamwork and creativity among students from diverse disciplines, including marketing, management, design, and media. By evaluating and refining AI-generated content, students applied key marketing concepts, adapted AI outputs for specific target audiences, and gained practical experience addressing the real-world limitations of AI. This session will inspire educators to rethink how AI can enhance applied learning, preparing students for careers where critical evaluation, creativity, and teamwork will be essential skills
Intro To Custom AI Tools: A Review of the Play Labs Platform
Get PDFJoin us for an interactive, hands-on workshop where you\u27ll dive into PlayLabs, an AI tool-building platform. Tailored for faculty with all levels of experience, this session will walk you through the platform\u27s features and guide you in creating custom AI tools that can be easily adapted to your classroom needs. By the end of the session, you\u27ll walk away with the practical skills to design and implement AIpowered tools that fit your use cases
AI-WISE: Developing an Industry-Informed AI Literacy Course for Undergraduates
No full textJoin us as we share the early stages of our AI-WISE (AI Workforce Integration and Skill Enhancement) grant work, which involved creating an evidence-based comprehensive undergraduate AI literacy course. We\u27ll discuss our interdisciplinary approach to building a curriculum that bridges academic instruction with workforce needs. Learn about our methodology for engaging with industry partners, our preliminary course framework targeting 5-10 essential AI-competencies, and our strategies for ensuring the course remains adaptable across disciplines. Gain insights into the grant-to-classroom pipeline and contribute to shaping responsive AI education
The State of Copyright and AI: Current Legal Frameworks and Future Directions
No full textAs AI technologies evolve, they challenge traditional interpretations of copyright law. This session will provide an update on how copyright law is currently addressing AI-generated works, focusing on key rulings, global variations, and ongoing cases. It will also examine emerging legal challenges and explore potential future directions for copyright law, including judicial trends and policy considerations. Attendees will gain insight into the unique challenges AI presents for the future of intellectual property
From AI Skeptics to Skilled Practitioners: A Transformative Graduate-Level Framework for Building Practical AI Fluency across Disciplines
No full textThis poster presents a pioneering 16-week graduate curriculum that transforms adult learners from AI skeptics into confident practitioners through an immersive, experiential learning approach. The course uniquely integrates hands-on experience with over 20 industry-standard AI tools while covering essential domains from machine learning fundamentals to ethical AI implementation. Through a HyFlex delivery model, learners engage with AI applications across healthcare, finance, education, research, and social sectors. The assessment structure combines weekly tool-based assignments (42%) with a capstone project (50%) that challenges learners to develop AI solutions for real-world professional challenges, emphasizing documentation, prompt engineering, and critical evaluation. Results demonstrate significant improvements in participants\u27 AI literacy and professional implementation capabilities
Integrating ChatGPT Voice to Enhance German Language Communication
No full textThis presentation will demonstrate the impact of ChatGPT Voice when integrated into a German language conversation and communication course during the 2025 spring semester. In this course students utilize ChatGPT Voice for spoken communication practice and assistance, as well as for written assistance and cultural exploration due to its capability to generate text from student dialogues. Furthermore, this presentation will explore student perceptions on the use of ChatGPT Voice by sharing results from an end of the semester Likert-type survey with open-ended questions, with a goal of gaining a deeper understanding of ChatGPT Voice\u27 s effects on language communication