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Total Credits: 0.1 CEUs
Generative AI, with its potential to personalize learning and create engaging experiences, offers exciting opportunities for community college faculty to meet the diverse and varying needs of their students. Discover how a Teaching and Learning Center empowers community college faculty to integrate generative AI effectively into their curriculum. This webinar showcases a comprehensive approach through several initiatives to introduce AI to faculty. First, through workshops and individual consulting, faculty learn the fundamentals and applications of generative AI, tailored to their courses. Second, a faculty learning community was established to foster peer-to-peer learning, allowing experimentation and troubleshooting together. Third, a subcommittee of faculty helped craft advocacy for syllabi language and policy development for responsible AI use in individual courses. Finally, the creation of a faculty fellow position in AI that supports faculty research and scholarship in AI-assisted assessment and pedagogical practices. Learn more about this comprehensive framework and discover how institutions can empower faculty to leverage the potential of generative AI while ensuring responsible and effective integration into the community college learning environment.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
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Certificate and CEUs for Webinars
Learners will have the option to earn a certificate of attendance or a certificate with Continuing Education Units (CEU) upon completion of the webinar. To earn a certificate with CEUs, the learner must successfully pass the learning assessment with a score of 80% or higher. All learners must complete the post-event evaluation to earn credentials.
The duration of this webinar is one hour, which is equal to 0.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
Dr. Vince Granito is a psychology professor at Lorain County Community College. He has been co-leading a Faculty Learning Community on AI use in Higher Education at LCCC since September 2023, and has presented multiple workshops on AI use for faculty, staff and administrators. His current research interests include ethical, social, and legal implications of AI, as well as human-AI interaction and collaboration. He has been awarded numerous grants for innovations in teaching and was awarded the Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association in 2013, as the top two-year college psychology professor in the country. He also has a background in sport psychology and is the past president of the Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology division through the American Psychological Association. He has published a number of articles, including a chapter in The Teaching of Psychology in Autobiography: Perspectives from Exemplary Psychology Teachers published by Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and a chapter on the history of sport psychology in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. He also is co-founder of Smart Performance, an educational program focusing on the mental aspects of Pickleball.
Tammy Macek is a seasoned higher education professional with a passion for improving teaching and learning at Lorain County Community College. She currently serves as the Faculty Developer for Teaching Technologies at LCCC's Teaching and Learning Center. In this role, she works closely with faculty to integrate educational technologies like Canvas LMS, YuJa Video, Slido, and CourseArc into their courses. She also co-facilitates a Faculty Learning Community focused on exploring the applications of Generative AI in the classroom, as well as presenting multiple workshops on AI use in higher education. She is a national expert in online and blended course quality. She coordinates and implements Quality Matters (QM), a highly regarded framework for ensuring and improving online learning experiences. Additionally, she leverages her instructional design and training expertise to create engaging and effective educational technology courses for LCCC faculty. She has a M.S. in Learning Design and Technology Instructional Design from Purdue University, and a M.A. in Higher Education and Adult Learning from Bowling Green State University.
