Fall 2024
The AI Playground
Tired of staring at screens all day and feeling like the bots are winning?
Bring your laptop and join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Presidential AI Task Force this fall for a bi-weekly, one-hour, F2F, “AI Playground” – where the hallowed traditions of the ivory tower meet the wild west of large language models. These won’t be your typical sessions where an “expert” talks at you while you pretend to take notes. Instead, this will be a very loosely supervised “playground” to mess around, ask questions, experiment, and play with AI and chatbots in real time.
Whether you’re trying to figure out ways to make students do their own work beyond bluebooks and threatening death and dismemberment for using AI, or you’d like to create a custom Virgil chatbot to guide them through the perils of your syllabus or you just want to freshen up your dad jokes about standard deviation, we’ve got you covered. Our friendly neighborhood facilitators will be on hand to answer questions, offer suggestions, and dust you off when you get thrown off the AI merry-go-round…again.
Unlike the nightmare playground scene in Terminator 2 where AI goes rogue and attempts to destroy all humanity in a nuclear holocaust, at Marshall’s AI Playground you can expect some laughter, help and brainstorming from facilitators and your peers, and the occasional “Aha!” moment (that doesn’t involve being incinerated).
COEPD Doctoral Research Statistics
For information, please visit our COEPD Doctoral Research Statistics CoP webpage.
Spring 2025
Wellness Wednesdays
Faculty has seen an ever-growing population of struggling students. Anxiety and depression rates have been on the rise with a near constant feeling of uncertainty. These shifts have created long days and the need to craft new approaches during a seemingly ever-changing personal and professional landscape. Faculty have been left to navigate this shifting environment even while experiencing the same stressors as our students. It seems inevitable that many of us are now feeling exhausted and burnt-out. How can we protect and support each other while also remaining present for our students?
Research Mentorship
The Center for Teaching and Learning is excited to announce the launch of a Community of Practice (CoP) focused on research mentorship for undergraduate and graduate students. This initiative aims to foster collaboration, share best practices, and enhance the mentorship experience for both students and mentors.
For more info, visit our Research Mentorship CoP webpage.