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Custom CFE Workshops on GenAI

Customized GenAI Workshops for UNC Departments

The CFE is partnering with academic units on campus to offer workshops on generative AI (GenAI) that are tailored to their faculty. Customizations may be based on faculty experience using GenAI, the desired duration of the workshop, relevant teaching contexts, and discipline- or industry-specific Gen AI examples and applications. Learn more about the CFE’s philosophy on supporting the instructional use of AI.

Workshop Goals

  • Introduce faculty members to generative AI and some of the primary opportunities and challenges concerning its use in higher education, with a primary focus on instructional use.
  • Help prepare faculty members to make informed decisions about how to adapt to GenAI and, if interested, how to adopt GenAI tools to support their own productivity goals.

Benefits to Faculty Members: All faculty members, regardless of their personal use of GenAI tools, need to have a basic understanding of how GenAI works and its capacities so that they feel prepared to talk to students about appropriate AI use and craft appropriate course policies. Some faculty members may need to revisit their course assessment strategies to adapt to student use of GenAI tools, while others may be interested in exploring their own use of this technology once they learn more about its potential.

CFE Offerings: The CFE can offer workshops ranging from one hour to a half-day, at no cost to the academic unit. Schedules permitting, it may be possible to offer multiple workshops across several weeks/months. In coordination with faculty representatives from the academic unit, CFE staff can customize some aspects of the workshops around disciplinary interests. The primary facilitator for workshops is CFE Faculty Fellow Dana Riger, Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Education.

GenAI Topics Covered: Departments can choose from a menu of topics and suggest additional ones, time permitting. For an outline of GenAI topics covered in our workshop GenAI for Effective Teaching and Student Learning, toggle on the three primary sections:

GenAI Concepts

  • Foundational models, large language models (LLMs), generative pre-trained transformers

GenAI in Education

  • AI-Driven tutoring platforms, learning tool, teaching assistants, AI-Powered writing assistants, content generation tools

Ethical Implications of AI Use

  • Privacy and data security
  • Bias and fairness
  • Misinformation & disinformation
  • Black box AI
  • Intellectual property
  • Long-term societal impacts

Prompt Engineering

  • Approaches, examples, tools demonstration

Teaching Use

  • Assessments, accessibility, administrative tasks

AI & Academic Integrity

  • Detection of AI-generated content, guidelines for acceptable use, integrations of human-centered skills and rubrics to ensure authenticity and originality.

Valuing Student Thinking Skills

  • Educational attainment frameworks, integrating GenAI with lesson and course objectives in mind

Student Use

  • Papers/presentations, multimedia assignments, reading comprehension, research, studying
  • Understanding the temptation for students to cheat

Writing with AI

  • Guiding authentic writing
  • Combatting misuse or over-reliance

Other strategies for AI-proofing and alternative assessment

Resources

What We Need from You: The CFE is interested in partnering with academic units where there is demonstrated faculty interest, including the support of the chair or dean. The academic unit will designate a faculty representative(s) that CFE staff can work with to determine workshop scope and disciplinary elements. They will also work with the CFE to schedule the session and promote attendance.

How to Get Started: If you are interested in scheduling a customized GenAI workshop or learning more about your options, please contact Marissa Stewart or Emily Boehm. We recommend that interested academic units reach out to us as soon as possible as our resources for this initiative are limited and we may not be able to accommodate all requests. We look forward to hearing from you!