Tips for Faculty to Create Learner Self-Awareness
ZOOMTeaching and modeling metacognitive skills pays dividends for students not only in your class, but as they move on to other classes as well. Techniques like teaching students to check their own understanding for distortions and misconceptions, predicting project or exam performance and then studying your feedback to align their projections, and practicing identifying what…
Tips for Faculty to Use Instructional Design in Course Planning
ZOOMInstructional design uses a systematic process for course design. This session will walk you through the sequence of identifying your desired outcomes for students, planning assessment of those outcomes, and then creating the course content and activities that are aligned with your outcomes, objectives, and assessments. Faculty members who attend the Zoom session will receive…
What to do about ChatGPT?
ZOOMChatGPT, powered by OpenAI, is a text generation tool/search engine powered by artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is capable of generating quality text that could be used as the body of papers and essays. Plagiarism checkers like Turnitin do not catch text from ChatGPT since such text has not been published before. This workshop will discuss preliminary…
Echo360 Refresher for Faculty
OnlineNeed to learn how to use Echo360 or just want a refresher before the summer or fall semester? Join Jason Sitek, the Echo360 Customer Success Manager for Mercer, as he leads a training session for Mercer faculty members. Session options are: Wednesday, April 5, from 12:30-2:00 or Thursday, April 6, from 3:00-4:30, both via Zoom.…
AI and Instruction with Dr. Bremen Vance and Dr. Susan Codone
Join Dr. Bremen Vance, Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the School of Engineering, and Dr. Susan Codone for an open discussion about AI tools and teaching. The workshop will focus on emerging AI text and image generation tools and explore ways to increase the resilience of course assignments, activities, and assessments, as well as…
AI and Instruction with Dr. Deneen Senasi and Dr. Susan Codone
Join Dr. Deneen Senasi, Professor of English and Co-Chair of the Department of English, and Dr. Susan Codone for an open discussion about AI tools and teaching. The workshop will…
AI and Instruction with Dr. James Vander Putten and Dr. Susan Codone
OnlineJoin Dr. James Vander Putten, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, and Dr. Susan Codone for an open discussion about AI tools and teaching. The workshop will focus on emerging AI…
AI-Resilient Class Assessment Activities
Join us on August 11, 2023, for AI-Resilient Class Assessment Activities, where we'll explore how AI affects student learning assessment. This workshop will be a “working” workshop in which participants…
Campus Conversations: AI, Ethics and Thought Leadership
Mercer Innovation Center 1501 Mercer University Dr, Macon, GAJoin us for a panel discussion and networking event to become thought leaders in ethics and artificial intelligence. You’re invited to submit an example of how you use AI. After…
Campus Conversations: AI, Ethics and Thought Leadership
Trustees Dining Room 3001 Mercer University Drive, AtlantaJoin us for a panel discussion and networking event to become thought leaders in ethics and artificial intelligence. You’re invited to submit an example of how you use AI. After…