Newsletter June 28, 2024
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“Preparing Students for Life Beyond College: Embracing AI as Essential Learning” 

Dr. C. Edward Watson, VP of Digital Innovation for AAC&C, former Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia.  

Wednesday, July 31 at 10am, in person via Faculty Intensive Teaching Institute or via Zoom* 

*Please register with unid@utah.edu  

Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create.  While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities.  These responses and realities create a challenging tension that high education must work to resolve.  Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), this presentation and discussion will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education.  The core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation. 

Please join us for our first Faculty Intensive Teaching Institute on July 29-August 1. This is an in-person only intensive workshop for faculty, postdocs, staff, and graduate students. Participants may register for one or both parts. Registration is free and lunch will be provided.  

Back to Basics, July 29 & 30 from 10-2:30 

Learn about syllabus and course design, assessment design, classroom management, providing accommodations to students, Canvas, and more! 

AI & the Science of Learning, July 31 & August 1 from 10-2:30 

Learn evidence-based approaches to improving student learning, including how to integrate AI and active learning into your pedagogy playbook.  

We will hold our Annual Teaching Symposium on August 12. This day-long event is free and registration is open to all instructors, postdocs, graduate students, and staff. The symposium begins with a keynote address from award winning Dr. Beth Krensky, Distinguished Professor, Art & Art History. Then over the course of the day, learn from some of the best faculty and staff at the U via in-person, zoom, or hybrid workshops. This event is the perfect way to get your fall semester courses off to a great start.