Building Your Generative AI Policy Across the Institution - Online Workshop

Overview

Building Your Generative AI Policy Across the Institution - Online Workshop

Where: Online/Virtual

When: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 and Thursday, November 9, 2023
12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Note: This registration will cover both sessions

Workshop Organizer:  Lance Eaton of College Unbound

Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: $90
Non-Member:  $180

Event Overview
Generative AI will continue to impact a variety of practices throughout higher education.  How can institutions intentionally respond to these new tools in ways that reflect the reality of their presence while also speaking to concerns and challenges about how they are used in different capacities throughout the institution from students to faculty to staff to leadership?  This session will include a series of conversations, breakouts, and workshopping around how institutional representatives can develop, co-create, and advocate for policies that engage in thoughtful consideration of the possibilities and problems posed by the rise of AI-generative tools related to higher education.

Session Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
 - Identify practices & concerns of AI Generative tools for higher education institutions
 - Develop policy considerations around the usage of AI Generative Tools across a given campus
 - Contribute to policy recommendations for the use of AI Generative Tools for a variety of institutional stakeholders

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Agenda

Day 1, Session 1: 

-Identifying Possibilities & Challenges
-Design Policy Considerations

Day 2, Session 2:

-Review of Policy Considerations
-Debrief & Next Steps for Policy Development

Speakers

Esther Brandon

Esther Brandon is the Manager of Learning Design and Technology Adoption at Harvard Medical School. Before returning to higher education, she taught English literature,  emergent bilingual learners, and students with moderate disabilities in Massachusetts K–12 public schools. Esther holds a Master of Arts in Teaching in Secondary Education and a Master of Science in Program and Project Management from Brandeis University. She is an enthusiastic seeker of new instructional technologies, focused on best teaching practices. Esther has presented on digital accessibility, digital literacy, VR/XR classroom technology, artificial intelligence generative tools, open educational resources, hybrid and hyflex learning best practices, and integrating citizen science into education. 

 

Lance Eaton

Lance Eaton is the Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College, and a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. His work often engages with the possibility of digital tools for expanding teaching and learning communities while considering the various deep issues and questions that educational technologies open up for students, faculty, and higher ed as a whole. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on artificial intelligence generative tools in education, academic piracy, open access, OER, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service learning. His musings, reflections, and ramblings can be found on his blog: http://www.ByAnyOtherNerd.com.

Dana Gavin

Dana Gavin is the Director of the Writing Center at Dutchess Community College and a Ph.D. candidate at Old Dominion University; her dissertation traces the evidence of Imperialist ideologies manifested in serialized nineteenth-century British crime fiction by illuminating the colonial acquisition of raw materials. Her research into the past has proven applicable to the present development of writing technologies, and she looks forward to presenting on the relevance of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories to generative AI text productions at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia.
 

Allison Papini

Allison Papini is the Assistant Director/ Manager of Research and instruction Services at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. Papini is a Rhode Island native who received her BA in History-Secondary Education from Providence College, her MLIS from the University of Rhode Island, and will earn her MBA from Bryant University in 2024. She has a wide array of academic interests including emerging technology, team-based learning, evidence-based medicine, publishing ethics, and intellectual freedom. In her free time, Allison enjoys crocheting, hiking, kayaking, snowshoeing, and rooting for her beloved Bryant Bulldogs and Boston sports teams.