AI for L&T Symposium

This Symposium was an opportunity for UniSQ participants to discuss, share, question and explore AI for learning and teaching and professional practice. It was convened by the newly formed Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Teaching Collective (AILTC), under the umbrella of Technology Demonstrators in the Learning and Teaching Futures Portfolio.

Read more about the AILTC

The videos and information shared below are segments from the Symposium - allowing for distinct viewing of each presenter(s). Explore more resources linked to the Symposium at the end of this artefact.

Nina sets the tone of this symposium by sharing the purpose of the newly formed AILTC. She also shares recent news and updates from those in higher education who are starting to apply AI for learning and teaching. She encourages all participants to share knowledge and work in this area, including research.

As the Dean, Learning and Teaching Futures and convenor of the AI Rapid Response Group at UniSQ, Jo focuses on strategic approaches and requirements for AI use. In this session she updated us on the conversations and planning taking place to ensure ethical and appropriate use of AI tools with students and staff as well as the need to explore affordances to improve learning and teaching.

Scott is the Chief Information Officer leading the ICT area at UniSQ. He highlights some key trends and opportunities and relays a positive outlook on the future where AI will be used for improving education and discusses AI options with a focus on security. Bing Chat Enterprise that uses ChatGPT 4 is available for staff at UniSQ. He also mentions MS Co-Pilot which is embedded across 365 apps. He reminds us of the words of fiction author William Gibson's, "The future is already here, just not evenly distributed."

View Scott's slides

Bing Chat Enterprise is accessible via Microsoft Edge browser: Bing Chat Enterprise. Sign into Bing Chat with your UniSQ credentials and it keeps any of the data that is run through Bing Chat into our tenancy which is not shared with the rest of the world. A much safer alternative for Chat GPT.

Tricia Kelly speaks on behalf of the library team that includes Robyn Tweedale and Samanthi Suraweera. She provides an overview of the library view of AI - challenges and developments. She also demonstrates the draft library guide on AI for students.

Slides from the Library session.

The breakout table discussions from this part of the Symposium centred on the role of the library when helping students with AI. Here is the collaborative Google doc with contributions based on those discussions.

Frey shares current thoughts and practice when using AI with Pathways students. Frey did not use slides.

Dianne shares updates on her learning and teaching grant where assessment is integrated with ChatGPT for first year nursing students. She is joined by Trisha as a key collaborator on the grant.

Di used the one slide which is the resting image below.

Derek is in the School of Agriculture and Environmental Science. He shares the use of GenAI to support students who have limited software skills and understanding of programming language.

View Derek's SLIDES.

The full title of Navdeep's research project is 'Creating an Artificial Intelligence tool to improve student engagement based on teacher's behaviours and movements in video conferencing' as shown by the video below. It is always good to hear what research is taking place around AI.

View Navdeep's SLIDES.

Dr Chris Gaviglio, Dr Di Stratton-Maher, and Dr Lisa Jacka share experiences and insights into the use of Nolej.io, a tool that generates online learning material and saves time for academics. This tool is part of a pilot at UniSQ.

Join the pilot.

Additional Symposium materials:

• Slides used for program - including results of all polls.
• Participant contributions to a collaborative doc: AI for L&T What do you think? where you will find responses to these questions:
1. What are the positives about AI for Learning and Teaching that inspire you to explore further?
   
2. What is it especially about AI (Tools, learning opportunities, etc) that is applicable to your discipline and related industries?
   
3. Where do we go from here? What do you need? What is the role of the AILTC?
   
• Full session recording - if you want it!

In the News:

• BYU professor teaches writing with ChatGPT
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• Embracing AI: The dawn of the virtual teaching fellow
• Wharton professor Ethan Mollick on the urgency of getting in front of AI
• Teaching with AI

Book:

• The eye of the master: A social history of artificial intelligence

Academic article:

• Lodge, J. M., Yang, S., Furze, L., & Dawson, P. (2023). It’s not like a calculator, so what is the relationship between learners and generative artificial intelligence? _Learning: Research and Practice_, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2023.2261106