{"id":735,"date":"2024-01-29T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/edvice\/?p=735"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:43:42","slug":"the-2024-annual-faculty-conference-on-teaching-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/edvice\/2024\/01\/29\/the-2024-annual-faculty-conference-on-teaching-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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More than 225 faculty from universities across the region came together with the CAT on January 10 and 11 for the 2024 Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence. The event was co-sponsored by Temple Libraries, the Office of Digital Education, Information Technology Services, and the  General Education Program. <\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme was <\/span>Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/i>. Participants grappled with t<\/span>he broad impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in higher education and the specific implications for teaching and learning\u2013all evolving in real time! The availability of these tools to our students raises important and difficult questions about the nature of thinking and learning, academic integrity, and the purpose and effectiveness of our assessments and learning activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The CAT was honored to have Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, A<\/span>ssociate Professor at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada, who also holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor at Deakin University in Australia. <\/span>Her day one keynote was titled, <\/span>Academic Integrity in a Postplagiarism World: The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Dr. Eaton began by defining a post-plagiarism world as an era in human society in which advanced technologies are a normal part of life, including how we teach, learn, and interact daily. After introducing us to the breadth of areas beyond student academic integrity that concern generative AI integrity in higher education, (e.g., publication ethics, research and integrity ethics, instruction ethics, and institutional ethics), she urged us not to approach student academic integrity from a \u201ccrime and punishment\/I will catch you if you try to cheat\u201d mindset. Rather, she suggested faculty and administrators adopt a more humanist mindset, as cheating is often a symptom of other problems, be it a lack of understanding or trying to handle multiple life responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>

Dr. Eaton then presented some likely realities of a post-plagiarism world, suggesting that some hybrid of human-AI technologies will be the norm, including wearable and implantable AI. Dr. Eaton reminded us that wearable AI is already here as is implantable AI (a cochlear implant), and thus <\/span>we need to be preemptive rather than speculative in our thinking so that we are not caught off guard as we were with AI\/ChatGPT. She stressed that we have an imperative as faculty to ensure the ethical use of future AI to leave the education system better than when we found it, and lastly, that <\/span>we must also remember that students cannot relinquish their responsibility for what they generate and submit!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We were also delighted to have Dr. Sharla Berry, <\/span>Associate Director of the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness at California State University, Long Beach. Her day two plenary session was titled, <\/span>Teaching with Technology: Holistic Pedagogies in a Time of Change<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Dr. Berry helped us <\/span>explore the sociocultural implications of our evolving digital learning landscape by <\/span>posing some thought-provoking questions we need to reflect on regarding the development of AI and its use in education:<\/span><\/p>