Resources and Links

  • The Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) started looking at AI in the context of Digital Transformation in the October Teaching Today newsletter
  • At the January Academic Resources Conference (ARC) we had a focus on Digital Transformation, so a lot of the sessions we had addressed AI in one way or another. Her are some highlights:
    • Opening Plenary (President Muma and John Jones)
    • Panel: Equity Considerations of Digital Transformation (Ken Harmon, Alicia Newell, Julie Thiele, John Jones moderator)
    • Panel: Creative Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (John Hammer, David MacDonald, John Jones, Carolyn Speer moderator)
    • Panel: Digital Transformation and the Future of Work (Diane Scott, Gery Markova, Tami Bradley, Andrew Hippisley moderator)
    • Panel: Academic Honesty in the Age of AI (Anna Porcaro, Susan Castro, Darren DeFrain, John Gallaher, David MacDonald moderator)
    • Session: The Ethics of Big Data (Susan Castro)
    • Book Group session on (recorded session led by Carolyn Speer)

AI Interest Group

As a part of the January ARC sessions, we invited people to complete a quick interest form to join an AI Interest group, and we have a small group that is just getting started as a Teams group and some information on Sharepoint. We will be starting to try to hold monthly conversations that will be promoted publicly after Spring Break.  :

  • (Sparepoint site, will require login)

Learning From Industry

NetApp, Mark III Systems and NVIDIA are offering a series of webinars about AI and Machine Learning to Wichita State faculty and staff. The first session happened last week, and the recording is now available. 

We鈥檙e doing a lot of learning and research in the MRC/OIR: in February I completed a certificate course (AI for Decision Making: Business Strategies and Applications) from the Wharton School, Carolyn let a book study of Robot Prooffor the ARC (), etc. 

Looking ahead

We have some big questions to answer about instruction. Here are a few we should be actively talking about:

  • How do we talk to our students about how to work with AI?
  • How is AI impacting the subject matter that we teach?
  • How do we responsibly teach with AI?
  • How do we create assignments that build student learning and make AI part of that process?
  • How do we teach our students what they鈥檙e going to need to know in their future when advances are changing the workplace so dramatically year after year?

Additional reading/viewing

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  • (Inside Higher Ed)
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  • (Aeon Essays)