Additional Resources
"The Evolving, Engaged Learner in a Digital World"
2024 Annual Faculty Retreat
Illini Union Rooms A, B, C
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
February 29, 2024
Suggested Resources
Campus Support
- Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL). Our mission is to explore and promote innovative teaching to support transformative learning experiences in all modalities. It is a hub of innovation and hands-on support for those who want to discuss and work with higher education trends, models, projects, and resources. CITL uses leading pedagogical approaches, research-based methodologies, innovative instructional technologies, and comprehensive assessment practices to strengthen teaching efforts and improve student learning outcomes.
- Generative Artificial Intelligence: Tools, Teaching Implications, Illinois Community
- Join the Generative AI in Education Community. We have created a Generative AI in Education community in Microsoft Teams, as a place to learn, share, and help each other.
- Office of the Provost Generative AI Center of Expertise (CoE). The GenAI CoE follows the Center of Expertise model introduced through the campus-wide Operational Excellence initiative. A Center of Expertise (CoE) is a collaborative, cross-campus organization of professionals that creates a nexus of skills, consultation, and support in a particular functional area.
Additional Resources from the Faculty Retreat
“Making it Real: From Role Play to Creating and Using Immersive VR in the Classroom”
Laura Shackelford, Anthropology
- VRchaeology: Increasing Access to Field Sciences. VRchaeology teaches archaeological field methods using immersive virtual reality (VR) so that all students can learn archaeology without leaving the classroom. This is a test case for field sciences more broadly. Find out more about our projects to promote accessibility for field research.
- Publications
- Lessons in Virtual Reality: LAS enters a new dimension of learning
“The Value of Connections”
Maria R. Cattai de Godoy, Animal Sciences
Additional resources from Shelly Schmidt, Food Science and Human Nutrition
- All About Me FSHN 101 Assignment and Rubric
- All About Me FSHN 595 Assignment and Rubric
- Editorial “What Do You Teach?” from Journal of Food Science Education: to explain why the all about me assignments are important for creating community
“The Impact of Content Sharing in Online Learning Platforms”
Unnati Narang, Business Administration
- Article: “The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Online Learning Platforms”
- Article: “How Content Sharing Strategies impact engagement in Online Learning Platforms”
“GenAI: Facilitating Learning Together”
Vishal Sachdev, Business Administration
- AI as a Debate Bot to Encourage Human-Human Discussion (video vignette)
- CITL interview with Vishal Sachdev about implementing some of the seven roles of bots as teaching objectives.
- V. Sachdev Generative AI activity from the Faculty Retreat
“The Future Is Now: Let AI Be Our Assistant”
Jiheng Jing, Mechanical Science & Engineering
- Ph.D. Student Leads Development Project of an AI Teaching Assistant (video vignette)
- CITL Interview with Jiheng Jeng on the development and implementation of AristAI (teaching assistant)
Let’s Play: Engaged and Learning in a Digital World
Justin Hodgson, Indiana University-Bloomington
- An introduction to Justin Hodgson and his work
- Adobe Creative Campus Digital Literacy Cafe: Digital Literacy and The Myth of Expertise: Finding a Way
- GenAI – Ethics of Practice
- Why Digital Literacy Matters
- Generative AI and Syllabus Statements
- J. Hodgson Two Challenges Assignment from the Faculty Retreat