AI Community of Practice Spring Symposium
May 20-24, 2024
The AI CoP Spring Symposium is an opportunity to explore ideas for how AI can support our UC Santa Barbara community. The Symposium is designed to be accessible and engaging to faculty, staff, students and academics with a wide range of interests and varied degrees of experience with artificial intelligence (AI).
All sessions will be held at this Zoom link (meeting ID: 82772484281) except for the in-person Closing Reception. We appreciate you registering for individual sessions so that facilitators can plan for engagement and communicate updates. See full program with session abstracts here.
Symposium Program at-a-glance
Monday, May 20, 2024
9-10am Welcome & Keynote - AI at UC: Promise and Pitfalls. AVC of Teaching and Learning, Linda Adler-Kassner and Camille Crittenden, UC Berkeley
10:30-11:30am Workshop - Building Better Websites with AI: Automating Student Registration Forms
12-1pm Panel - AI in the Writing Classroom: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
1:30-2:30pm Showcase - Digital Presentations - link coming May 20!
3-4 pm Roundtable - AI Platforms Built for Student Success: “That’s Correkt, Storkie!”
- Storkie the Student Affairs Chatbot: Year One Lessons Learned & Future Opportunities
- Beyond the Black Box: A Step Towards Ethical AI with Correkt's Credible and Accurate Search
Tuesday, May 21
9-10am Plenary - Higher Education in the Age of AI: Promoting Literacy & Innovation
10:30-11:30am Workshop - The Robots are Friendly: Teaching and Assessing Student Learning in the age of AI
12-1pm Roundtable - Dipping your Toes into AI: Sharing ITS Experiences
1:30-2:30pm Workshop - AI for Business Officers and Managers
3-4pm Panel - Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Insights from Writing Program Faculty
Wednesday, May 22
9-10am Panel - The UC AI Landscape: Challenges, Successes, and the Road Ahead
10:30-11:30am Workshop - Harnessing the Power of AI: Accelerating Business Processes and App Development
12-1pm Presentation - Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Pilot with UCSB Human Resources
1:30-2:30pm Showcase - Digital Presentations - link coming May 20!
3-4pm Roundtable - AI: Ethics & Academic Integrity
- Are the two AIs Incompatible?
- AI Don’t!
Thursday, May 23
9-10am Showcase - Digital Presentations - link coming May 20!
10:30-11:30am Showcase - Digital Presentations - link coming May 20!
12-1pm Roundtable - Musing with AI & Creativity in the Classroom
- Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
- AI as an Ethical Companion in Artmaking and Community-building
- Scholars Guide Song: Learning unconventionally with music
1:30-2:30pm Roundtable - Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning with AI
- Exploring AI-Driven Opportunities for Enhanced Student Engagement in Higher Education
- Enhancing Student Engagement and Assignment Clarity: Leveraging GenAi for Improved Buy-In and Instructions
- Using AI to Improve Student Queries related to Course Content
3-4pm Roundtable - AI for Career Guidance, Course Feedback & Inclusive Hiring
- AI as a Career Co-Pilot: The Role of ChatGPT in Guiding Students to Success (Need to confirm)
- Putting the Value back in Evaluation: Leveraging Generative AI to Parse Student Feedback
- Disciplinary Differences: Use of AI to Evaluate the Evolution of Inclusive Language in Faculty Job Advertisements
Friday, May 24
9-10am Roundtable - AI for Research
10:30 -11:30am Workshop - Coding for Non-Coders: Where ChatGPT Can Help
12-1pm Roundtable - Faculty and Student Reflections on AI "Writing"
- Art-ificial Intelligence: Examining Perceptions of AI-Generated Writing and Literature
- Experimenting with AI in the Feminist and Ethnic Studies Classroom
2-4pm In-Person Closing Reception at Loma Pelona Conference Center