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    <div><strong><a href="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/03/Privacy-Ethics-Symposium-Flier_April-2024.pdf" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium</a></strong></div>
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    <div>Picture this: You are in a classroom where you are free to use GPT - but should you? This session invites you to explore this dilemma. We will discuss the pros and cons of GPT in education, considering its impact on your learning, future career, and life in an AI-driven era, using examples from Dr. Chen's experience teaching two Data Science courses (one undergraduate and one graduate level) at UMBC in Fall 2023, where students were allowed to freely use GPT. Dr. Chen will share insights gained from identifying GPT-generated work, and discuss strategies for responsibly and productively engaging GPT as your personal AI assistant.</div>
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    <a href="https://flourish.umbc.edu/karen-chen/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Lujie Karen Chen</strong></a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at UMBC, where she leads the <a href="https://flourish.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Laboratory for Informatics for Human Flourishing</strong></a>. She has almost 20 years of academic and real-world experience in applied machine learning, statistics, data mining, analytics, and visualization. Before joining UMBC, she spent about 15 years at the <a href="https://www.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-groups/auton-lab/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Auton Lab</strong></a> at Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her Ph.D. in Information Systems and was a fellow in the Program of Interdisciplinary Educational Research.</div>
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<Summary>UMBC AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium     The GPT Dilemma: Navigating the Pros, Cons, and Impacts on Learning     Professor Lujie Karen Chen  Department of Information systems UMBC     12-1:00pm...</Summary>
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<Title>Incorporating Generative AI into Learning Experiences, 4/26</Title>
<Tagline>Using AI in the classroom, online event 10am-1pm April 26</Tagline>
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    <h4><span>Incorporating Generative AI into Learning Experiences</span></h4>
    <p><strong>online via Zoom, 10-1pm ET Friday, April 26, 2024</strong></p>
    <p>The event will highlight how faculty, staff, and faculty/staff/student teams from across Maryland higher education have engaged in the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Generative AI</a> as part of assignments and learning activities. How are we engaging students in the creation of authentic work while using Generative AI? What are critical ethical issues associated with the use of Generative AI in teaching? How might we foster career-ready skills associated with Generative AI as a part of students’ learning experiences?</p>
    <p><span>Keynote speech by</span><strong> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-lang-9047366/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dr. James Lang</a>, </strong><span>author of <em>Cheating Lessons</em></span><em>: Learning from Academic Dishonesty, </em><span>who will discuss a vision of academic integrity in the era of generative AI.</span></p>
    <p><span>Sponsored by the USM Council of University System Faculty, the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, MarylandOnline, and Montgomery College.</span></p>
    <p><span><strong>To register, </strong></span><span><strong><a href="https://www.usmd.edu/cai/incorporating-generative-ai-learning-experiences-virtual-showcase#e5" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">click here</a>. </strong></span><span><em>Note: </em>Registrations is limited<strong> </strong>to individuals affiliated with Maryland colleges and universities. </span><span><strong>Register using your university or college email address.</strong></span></p>
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<Summary>Incorporating Generative AI into Learning Experiences  online via Zoom, 10-1pm ET Friday, April 26, 2024  The event will highlight how faculty, staff, and faculty/staff/student teams from across...</Summary>
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    <p><span>The <a href="https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Ultra/Course_Content/Create_Content/AI_Design_Assistant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Blackboard Ultra AI Design Assistant</strong></a>, available to instructors since December 2023, supports course and assessment design by providing suggestions for course structure, images, assessment questions, and rubrics. </span></p>
    <p><span>Join Instructional Technology for a 45-minute session to explore the </span><a href="https://umbc.atlassian.net/wiki/x/unXVAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>AI Course Design Assistant Tools</strong></a> for assessment in Ultra courses. Learn how to use Ultra AI tools to create and develop test questions and rubrics while exploring opportunities for authentic assessment. Use the new AI Context Picker <span>to specify which course content items should inform generated test questions.</span></p>
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<Title>FDC session: Academic Integrity in the Era of AI, 12-1 2/14</Title>
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    <div>While fostering and maintaining academic integrity has always been an important goal of instruction at UMBC, advances in "the other AI" -- artificial intelligence -- has complicated this effort. Students are not always aware of what constitutes plagiarism where tools such as ChatGPT are concerned. Meanwhile, faculty often feel pressure to ensure that students meet course learning objectives and also help them learn how to use AI tools ethically and responsibly. The fact that effective tools to detect students' usage of AI in completing assignments do not currently exist further complicates the academic integrity landscape. </div>
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    <div>In this session we will revisit best practices in course, syllabus, and assignment design in light of the opportunities and temptations that generative AI tools present. Faculty will learn how to make their policies around AI use clear to students and will gain strategies for dissuading students from inappropriate use of these tools.</div>
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