The Center for Digital Learning and Innovation (COLI) invites you to join our dynamic workshop series as we explore the potential of Artificial Intelligence (Al) in transforming the way we work, teach, and conduct research. This series is designed for anyone who is interested in harnessing the power of Al including instructors, staff members, administrators, or any member of the EHE community who is curious about the potential of AI in Education. This is our first workshop in the series, a 30-minute introductory discussion on the What and Why of AI.
The following is a recording of the workshop that took place on October 8, 2023 via Zoom (webinar).
This is the first workshop in a series around AI in Education from the EHE AI in Education Community. In this workshop, presenters provide information about the community workgroup and the goals they hope to accomplish, offer links to helpful resources, and discuss ways that the College and the AI in Education community can support the integration of AI in teaching.
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[Rick Voithofer] Awesome.
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Well it’s 11:30 and so it must be AI time somewhere in the world, or I guess it’s always AI time right now.
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I wanted to welcome everyone to this first workshop on.
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Of course, my dog starts to bark as soon as I start to speak, so I apologize if you can hear that.
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For AI and Education being sponsored by the Center for Digital Learning and Innovation, my name is Rick Voithofer.
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I’m an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies in the Learning Technologies program.
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I’m also the director of Critical Research and Innovation at the Center.
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I’d like to very quickly introduce the other members of the AI in Education team within the center.
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So Christy McLeod and Channell Walker are two instructional designers who are part of the distance Ed and learning design.
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A group within within the center.
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I can’t see everyone who’s here, so I’m just going to introduce the whole group.
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Jessica Kulp and Mariah Hagadone- Bedir are both doctoral students in the Learning Technologies program, Professor Detra Price-Dennis, who’s the executive director of the center, and Casey Rinehart, who’s the director of distance Education and Learning design.
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And so we have been meeting in recent weeks to try to figure out how we might best facilitate supporting all of you in starting continuing your journey with AI. I think it’s become clear that AI will is already impacting and will be impacting our variety of practices going forward
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we are also want to say that we’re aware that I think we you know, we have faculty, we have staff, we have students in this meeting.
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And so we’re in, we’re interested in committee committed to supporting all of you.
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And so we only have 30 minutes.
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And so we’re going to be really trying to spend most of the time engaging you in conversation in groups.
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And so I wanted to present a few things to you first before going on.
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First thing is we’ve created teams group and AI and education teams group.
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Casey, where do we land in terms of adding people to the group?
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I I just wanted to make sure that I say that correctly.
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Give that information, right?
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[Casey Rinehart] Yeah, absolutely.
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So all of our faculty and staff participants today will be automatically added to this group.
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And you, of course, have the opportunity to leave if if you prefer to not remain in the group, or you can join and leave as you choose.
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And then in our breakout rooms today, we’ll actually discuss with students what kind of community they would prefer.
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[Rick Voithofer] Thank you.
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Yes.
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So we thought that students might have a unique needs in terms of what, you know, what they would feel most comfortable and discussing, because I think, you know, there’s still a lot of questions around, you know, around AI and, and how they might use that to support their learning.
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And so those of you that are students, we will be trying to get information from you about how we could create that community.
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And, and so we’ve planned out a series of workshops over the course of the, of the probably the end of fall into spring.
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And I, I, I wanted to, if everyone could in the chat would be, would be super helpful if you could look over these topics and, and say, you know, if these are helpful or are there other things that you would like to be talking about?
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You know, talking about, of course, teaching ethics and appropriate use of AI, use of AI in your work, sort of the automation of work.
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Those of you that are staff, you know, maybe thinking about or already using AI in different ways or curious about different ways of how you can make your, you know, how it can help facilitate your work using AI in research.
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I know that my colleagues have already been, you know, using it in different ways.
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And then the impacts for AI in terms of cheating, grading, privacy, things like that.
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So the, the purpose today is not to give you an introduction to AI because we have such a short amount of time.
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And so you’ll find these links that I’m showing you now, I’m going to upload them to our chat shortly.
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You’ll also find this document, a document with these links.
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So you can just click on them within our team site.
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These are some of these are different OSU resources in terms of, of policies.
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One of our EHE centers CETE has a has a helpful introduction to AI.
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The Drake Institute has a growing list of resources and suggestions at the website that I provide there.
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So this can give you, you know, rather than spending time presenting information, we really want to engage you in in conversation.
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And so I can see people are are adding things to the chat in terms of topics.
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So thank you for doing that.
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So I really would like to give us the most time to go in our small groups if you know if, if at all possible.
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And so we’re going to ask you to consider two questions.
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We’re going to ask you how, how could the college best support the integration of AI in your work, teaching, learning and research, and what kind of community of practice around AI would be most valuable to you.
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And we’ve also, and I’ll, oops, I’ll put this in the chat in a little bit.
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I’ve created a, a survey so you can also answer that.
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You could also answer those questions there.
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But I think our groups will be small enough that we’re going to have members of of our team engage you in this conversation now.
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So first I’ll ask the rest of the team, is there anything I missed up to this point before we go into the small groups?
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[Casey Rinehart] I want to share
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actually, I’m I’m notorious for not typing fast enough, but I was going to reply to Eric’s comment about using AI to develop speeches and manuscripts and, and meetings even.
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And one thing that I think our group is really excited about is recognizing all of the AI work that’s happening across our college and in the university and really serving as a space to bring all that together so we can share and collaborate together on those resources and, and tapping into what others are doing and showcasing what others are doing as well.
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So thanks for mentioning that and and hopefully we might even reach out to you to see if you want to be one of our presenters for a future session.
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[Rick Voithofer] Thanks.
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So Casey, I think you’re you have the the magic small group wand that I’ll ask you to wave.
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[Casey Rinehart] Well, I think as some of the other breakout rooms are joining us and I know we’re running the one time.
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So would anyone from Christy, your breakout room, would you all want to share some highlights that from your discussion?
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[Christy McLeod] Sure, I can, I can, I took a couple of notes.
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They’re they’re still in rough form.
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But, but yeah, we, we have a lot of a lot of questions and, and ideas to share.
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You know, one of the things that that we talked about is the idea of having maybe a basic AI 101 course because there are some folks that are still, you know, wrapping their head around exactly what AI is, what what counts as AI, the different forms that comes in, you know, that type of thing.
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So maybe having that course, and I do like AI 101 or something like that, that just lets folks know that it’s, you know, a, you know, a starter course.
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We had talked about using AI in course design and, you know, maybe having an opportunity to have a course review to see where AI might be beneficial, where it might be helpful, whether that’s in assignments or, you know, other areas.
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We talked about academic integrity and using AI, you know, to try to, you know, talk to students about using it as a resource, not necessarily just a generator, you know, for for doing everything.
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And then, you know, clarification on what OSU’s policies is on AI, you know, the academic integrity, how that fits in.
10:08
We’d love to see examples of how people are successfully using AI creatively in their teaching and their and assignments.
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And we talked about accessibility and how AI can help with some of making sure some of our things like our images are accessible and some of the things that are out there already where our photos or images are coming already with alt text, you know, that’s been generated by AI.
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So yeah, so we we kind of were all over, you know, a lot, a lot of thoughts on that.
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But yeah, it’s a big area to explore for sure.
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[Christy Rinehart] Thank you for sharing that.
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And I, I put back in the chat, I know Rick mentioned this at the start of the session, but I’ve put in the chat our Qualtrics that is a place to put any of your responses to those, those breakout room questions.
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I’ll mention a little bit of what we discussed in the student room as well.
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We, we had some really great conversation and just listening really to how our students are thinking about using AI.
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But really, you know, considering it from many perspectives, cause most of the, of those in our room are thinking about it both in there as a, in a student capacity, but also in teaching and research.
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So thinking about ways that they can utilize those kinds of tools and really thinking about ways of how students and, and educators are really allowed to use AI.
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Like what is the guidance around that?
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Best practices and guidelines for use?
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Like really, I think one of the great ways that was said in our room is that the, the lines feel very blurred right now and the ethics feel blurred.
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And so what you know, helping to, to I to clarify that and providing some guidance around that.
12:03
So we’ve, I’ve noted that for consideration for us for developing some of those resources.
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And yeah, it’s just, we had a really great discussion around AI and accessibility around students who may have disabilities and what the the impact may be when you’re actually using those tools.
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But also on the other side of how those tools can really help with summarizing articles or getting access to a space that may not have actually been built excessively and how AI could potentially help with that.
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That barrier that’s happening that, you know, it’s it’s created because of the lack of accessibility and the development of it.
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So again, some really rich conversation.
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I think some of the other room is joining us.
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Welcome back everyone.
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[Rick Voithofer] We go till 12, right?
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[Casey Rinehart] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So we a few of us just reported out if if you guys wanted to share any last minute wrap up things, we can also send it out after the fact to the community.
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[Rick Voithofer] Yes, I think we’ll all share notes, but so much I took so many great notes.
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You know, learned that so much, you know, people are doing interesting things that you know, we need to capture and share.
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Got some great insights about how we might engage with staff in terms of, you know, finding staff who are doing innovative things, capturing that, finding where their pain points are, providing support for how AI could do that.
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So, you know, we talked about that, talked about, you know, how some of the folks, they were using it for their courses, you know, a lot of curiosity.
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And so, so yeah, I’ll, I’ll stop with that ’cause I get, I get I like to be respectful of people’s time.
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Well, thank you everyone.
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We were, I was so pleased with it, the turn out and stay tuned there.
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They’ll there certainly will be more coming.
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And please join, you know, go check into the teams regularly because we’re going to be, you know, using that as our, you know, point of connection.
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And of course, they’ll be other announcements as well, but that’s a nice contained space.