Workshops for Teaching and Research with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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| January 28, 2025 3:00 – 4:00 | AI Tools for Academic Research | In this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to explore several free AI tools focused on academic research: Research Rabbit, Elicit, Notebook LM, and Claude. For each tool, facilitators will share its purpose, how to use it, and how it meets various research needs. Please make free accounts for each tool prior to the session if you would like to explore alongside us. Facilitators: Kristen Gregory, Ken Luterbach, Xi Lin, Sarah Sconyers | Meeting Recording |
| January 29, 2025 10:00 – 11:00 | AI Apps Lightning Session | In this dynamic and engaging session, faculty, staff, and students come together to showcase their favorite AI applications. Each participant has just a few minutes to present an app they love and share insights into why it’s valuable. Whether it’s a productivity tool, a language translator, or a creative AI project, everyone gets a chance to highlight the magic of AI in their daily lives. Expect a whirlwind of inspiration and discovery! Facilitated by Ken Luterbach | Meeting Recording |
| February 12, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 | AI Apps for the Social Sciences and Humanities | Following up on the popular AI Apps Lightning session, this workshop introduces AI apps that are helpful in the social sciences and humanities. Learn from colleagues in these fields and get tips on how to discover and evaluate new tools and apps. Facilitated by Jan Lewis | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| February 19, 2025 10:00 - 11:00 | AI Apps for STEM and Professional Studies | Following up on the popular AI Apps Lightning session, this workshop introduces AI apps and topics of interest to STEM disciplines and Professional Studies. Learn from specialists in these fields and participate in a facilitated discussion about opportunities and challenges. Facilitated by John Southworth | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| March 25, 2025 2:00 - 3:00 | Understanding Ethics and Policies of Using AI for Research | Should you be using AI in all aspects of your research process? Do the journals you want to submit to even allow AI? How should you disclose AI use in your article? How can you make sure you are not citing an article that is AI generated? Learn about journal policies, ethical considerations, and other things you might want to know before you use AI in your scholarly works. | Register Here Join Here |
| March 27, 2025 9:00 - 9:20 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | The AI Toolbox: Leveraging Multiple AI Tools for Student Success | This session examines how AI tools can be leveraged to drive student success. It highlights best practices for integrating and utilizing AI tools for course content creation. Participants will explore how AI can be utilizing to enhance the backwards design approach to teaching and improve the quality of their courses. By the end of the session, participants be able will add an additional AI tool to their teaching toolbox. Facilitated by Michael Daniels and Kelly Reinsmith-Jones | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 9:30 - 9:50 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Artists in an AI world | In an era of growing AI innovation, it is crucial to have the knowledge and skills to incorporate AI appropriately to improve productivity and overall quality. In this session, we will explore some of the creative tools that use generative AI and showcase some of the many tasks these tools can perform. Facilitated by Emily Leach | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 10:00 - 10:20 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Using ChatGPT to Help with Data Processing | Explore the potential of ChatGPT and learn how to craft prompts for ChatGPT to generate MS-Excel macros that can be used to process, visualize, and present data in various disciplines. Facilitated by Jason Yao | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 10:30 - 10:50 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Using Chat GPT to Summarize Qualitative Assessment Data | This presentation explores the use of ChatGPT as a potential tool for assessment. ChatGPT was used to help summarize qualitative data collected from the Global Understanding post-course survey. The session highlights how ChatGPT was used to conduct a sentiment analysis and identify key themes in student responses, providing valuable insights into the program that can be used in multiple ways. Facilitated by Jami Leibowitz | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:20 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Incorporating ChatGPT Into Online Discussion in a Literacy Course: Impact and Students' Perceptions | This study utilizes the IDEE framework (Su & Yang, 2023), which focuses on identifying desired outcomes (I), determining appropriate levels of automation (D), ensuring ethical considerations (E), and evaluating the effectiveness (E) of using ChatGPT, to explore its role in enhancing discussions in a graduate-level asynchronous online literacy course. ChatGPT was integrated into two graded discussions, with sixteen students following specific guidelines and reflecting on AI-generated content. The results indicate that while concerns about the tool's effectiveness and authenticity remain, ChatGPT enhances engagement, promotes critical thinking, sharpens analytical skills, and offers new teaching opportunities. Facilitated by Ran Hu and Xi Lin | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 11:30 - 11:50 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | AITRI: Building Human-Centered, Tech-Informed AI Innovation in Education | The AI Teaching and Research Institute (AITRI), housed in the College of Education’s Center for STEM Education, is a regional and digital hub dedicated to advancing AI literacy and innovation in education. In this session, AITRI’s founding members will showcase how they help faculty integrate AI into their teaching and research, create AI tools, as well as foster ethical and creative applications. Attendees will gain insight into collaborative opportunities, including student support, research partnerships, and AI literacy initiatives that drive educational transformation. Join us to explore how AITRI can amplify your work with AI, connect you with a network of forward-thinking educators, and provide hands-on support to bring your AI ideas to life. Facilitated by Kristen Gregory, Ken Luterbach, Xi Lin, and Sarah Sconyers | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | CIO Updates | Facilitated by Zach Loch | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 1:00 - 1:20 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Innovative AI Integration in College Writing Instruction: Enhancing Learning While Upholding Academic Integrity | This presentation will examine innovative approaches for integrating AI tools into college-level English writing instruction, with a focus on maintaining academic integrity while supporting the development of essential writing skills. The presentation will emphasize practical strategies for using AI as a pedagogical support tool—enhancing instruction rather than diminishing the writing process. The presentation will further explore how carefully structured AI integration can promote student engagement, deepen critical thinking, and streamline aspects of writing instruction without compromising personal voice, creativity, or mechanical accuracy. Facilitated by Carla Pastor | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 1:30 - 1:50 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | Curate Learning through Dialogue: The NotebookLM Research Experience | NotebookLM combines source curation with AI-powered dialogue to create learning environments that foster explorative research and writing. It can help transform learning from a linear step-by-step process into a workflow based on inquiry and curiosity. This presentation demonstrates how this approach can lead to deeper learning and unexpected insights. Facilitated by Michelle Eble | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
| March 27, 2025 2:00 - 2:20 This session is part of the 2025 Technology Tailgate | High-Impact Pedagogy: AI Learns, Students Teach | When they are assigned the role of teacher, students are encouraged to deeply understand concepts in order to explain them. Drawing on Chen et al. (2024), whose work on ChatGPT as a “teachable agent” demonstrates stronger student mastery when learners teach AI, this session will show you how to set up “explaining to AI activities” in your own courses. Discover how to craft prompts that challenge students to articulate core concepts clearly and critically evaluate AI’s responses. Facilitated by Todd Finley and Sarah Sconyers | Join Here For a complete list of sessions and additional information, visit the Learning Technologies Technology Tailgate page |
Fall 2024 Sessions |
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| September 17, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 | AI Literacy: What every ECU graduate and every ECU employee should know | AI literacy is essential for informed decision making and staying competitive in today’s tech-driven world. In this session, we will discuss AI Literacy and the impact of AI in society, foundations of AI, ethical considerations and biases in AI, real-world applications in business and industry, and employers’ expectations. Facilitated by: Jan Lewis, Ken Luterbach, John Southworth, Wendy Creasey | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| October 15, 2024 2:00 – 3:00 | Choosing Among Chatbots and AI Tools for Educators | In this hands-on session, we will guide participants through a series of prompts intended to inform tool selection for instructional activities, including lesson planning, assessment generation, and differentiation of instruction for diverse learners. AI tools to consider include GPT 4o, Gemini, Perplexity, SchoolAI, MagicSchoolAI, and any others you wish to consider. Facilitated by Kristen Gregory, Xi Lin, Sarah Sconyers, and Ken Luterbach | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| October 16, 2024 3:00 – 4:00 | How AI Can (and can’t) Be Used in Creating Scholarly Works and Course Materials | AI promises to revolutionize the way we create everything, but how are journal publishers currently allowing scholars to use AI in their articles? And how can AI be used to supplement existing textbooks and create assessments, practice problems, and other free student resources? Come learn about the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in your scholarly creations. Facilitated by Allison Kaefring | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| October 24, 2024 9:00 – 10:30 | Teaching Writing in the Age of AI | Offered in collaboration with the University Writing Program, this workshop explores the intersection of generative AI technologies and writing instruction by providing university faculty with strategies to navigate this current technology landscape and foster opportunities for critical AI literacy with their students. This workshop will focus on collaborative discussion and activities and support faculty in gaining practical insights to enhance their teaching of writing in the age of AI. Participants may want to bring writing assignments or projects to share. Facilitator: Michelle Eble | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials Link to Resources Handout |
| November 6, 2024 1:00-2:00 | How AI Learns and Why that Matters to You | How does AI learn? How do programs like ChatGPT decide what to say? In this session, we will explore where AI gets its information and what it does with it. We’ll discuss how AI models are trained and how that can affect what they generate. We’ll look at what AI can and cannot do and what the implications are for you in your classroom. Join us for this deep dive into the inner workings of AI. Facilitators: Nic Herndon and David Hart | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| November 12, 2024 2:00 - 3:00 | Faculty Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence at ECU: A Snapshot and Lessons Learned | ECU is participating in a multi-institution research project which will help assess existing and emerging applications of generative artificial intelligence that are most likely to affect teaching, learning, and research, as well as the needs of institutions, instructors, and scholars. During the 2023-2024 academic year, the research team conducted focus groups and interviews with numerous faculty across the university. In this session, they will share actionable steps ECU can take to support faculty based on their research and findings from the research cohort. They will share resources you can use to learn more about generative AI tools that can assist you with your teaching and research. Time will be devoted for participants to share their experiences and concerns and to suggest next steps. Facilitators: Jan Lewis, Ken Luterbach, John Southworth | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
| November 21, 2024 3:00 - 4:00 | Exploring Use Cases for Generative AI in Teaching: Practical Strategies for Faculty | This workshop shares specific examples where ECU faculty use generative AI to enhance teaching. Course design, content creation, critical analysis, and re-envisioning assignments are among the topics they will discuss. Facilitated by Jan Lewis | Meeting Recording Link to Session Materials |
Recordings of Previous AI-Related Sessions
| Session | Links |
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Faculty Panel - Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) - Opportunities and Challenges (Runtime - 1hr 28min) | Meeting Recording |
Faculty Panel - Transforming Research Practice Through Artificial Intelligence (Runtime 1hr 24 min) | Meeting Recording |
HOiST - ChatGPT and Other Tools | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 1 - Enhancing Student's Reading and Engagement Utilizing Generative AI Tools and H5P | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 3 - Making AI Generative for Higher Education | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 4 - Health Literacy Information Transformed: An exploration of the potential for generative AI (ChatGPT) to render health information accessible and understandable | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 5 - Using AI to Teach the Construction and Refinement of Qualitative Interview Protocols | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 6 - Tech, Water, and Power: The Environmental Considerations of Developing and Using AI | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 7 - Designing Cross-Disciplinary Teams for AI Research | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 8 - Using machine learning with linked administrative and survey data to research wellbeing outcomes for foster youth in the U.S. | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 9 - Designing a Course Wicked Fast with AI | Meeting Recording |
2023 Technology Tailgate Session 10 - Enhancing Teaching through Use of AI Tools | Meeting Recording |