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Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Symposium Series

Sponsored by NYU’s Office of the Provost, this virtual symposium series brings together faculty, staff, and students from across NYU’s degree-granting campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai to explore how generative AI (GenAI) is transforming teaching and learning.

Oct 2025 Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium: NotebookLM Use Cases

Our latest virtual symposium on Thursday, October 16, 2025, spotlights Google’s NotebookLM, inviting NYU community members to share and explore how this powerful tool can enhance teaching, learning, research, and academic operations across disciplines. This event continues to embody our commitment to breaking down academic silos and fostering interdisciplinary conversations.

Past Events

Feb 2025 NYU Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium: Postplagiarism

We kicked off our fourth symposium on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, with a student and faculty roundtable discussion about GenAI, followed by Dr. Sarah Eaton’s keynote on “Postplagiarism,” which explored academic integrity and ethics as GenAI technologies become more ubiquitous. The last two roundtables responded to Dr. Eaton’s concept of postplagiarism: one with NYU’s Center for Teaching and Learning directors and the other with faculty.

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Oct 2024 Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium: Student Perspectives

Recognizing that students are often the most innovative adopters of new technologies, our third symposium on Thursday, October 10, 2024, centered on student perspectives of GenAI.

We kicked off the event with a student roundtable, followed by student lightning presentations from undergraduate and graduate students across NYU’s global campuses, as well as faculty lightning talks. We ended the symposium with closing remarks from two of our students.

The student lightning talks discussed GenAI as an academic and personal assistant, peer tutor, a tool for capstone projects, and a resource for personalizing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles, and building their personal brands.

Faculty lightning presentations addressed shifting student expectations around faculty use of GenAI tools, graduate student engagement with NYU’s high-performance computing infrastructure, visualizing historical texts with GenAI tools, and contextualizing vision-language models for personalized learning in intro-level programming. Faculty also explored what drives students’ use of GenAI and how it shapes their engagement.

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Feb 2024 NYU Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium

Our second symposium, held on February 8, 2024, deepened conversations around practical implementation. We kicked off the symposium by discussing recommended guidelines and ethical considerations for teaching and learning with GenAI. This was followed by an hourlong presentation about student-centered learning through the lens of GenAI.

Next came a series of faculty lightning talks on drafting GenAI course policies, avoiding generative AI in students’ graded writing, using generative AI to explain AI decisions, evaluating generative AI tools for academic research, developing AI assistants for higher ed instructors, and creating an experimental AI chatbot to help learners program in p5.js.

Midway through the lightning talks, we paused for a student roundtable.

Then, we continued with a second round of faculty lightning talks about de-automating writing, using GenAI to support real-world projects, understanding team dynamics through a virtual project manager, teaching how generative AIs work, and exploring the evolution of AI technology in video production and open-source AI short filmmaking.

We concluded the day with breakout room conversations, educator to educator, about teaching and learning with GenAI.

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October 2023 NYU Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Conference

Our inaugural symposium was an all-day virtual event, anchored by keynotes from Ethan and Lilach Mollick of Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and Stephen Aguilar of USC on Friday, October 27, 2023. It also featured a student roundtable, multiple faculty lightning talks, and pre-conference workshops held the prior day.

We opened with framing sessions on generative AI in education, exploring NYU’s institutional stance, data privacy, ethical implications, and academic integrity in a GenAI age. In the morning, faculty delivered lightning presentations on a wide range of topics: demystifying AI for pedagogy, crafting AI-aware course policies, de-automating writing assignments, and applying large language models in specialized courses. After lunch, Stephen Aguilar delivered the first keynote, “Becoming a Tempered Optimist in the Age of Generative AI and Education.” A student roundtable followed, offering critical perspectives on AI’s role in learning. The afternoon session resumed with more lightning talks on AI avatars, personalized GenAI learning experiences, a chairside virtual dental patient, an AI tool prototype, and  supporting faculty GenAI adoption. Later, Ethan and Lilach Mollick presented the second keynote, “Teaching and Learning with Generative AI.” The day concluded with a forward-thinking conversation among Ethan, Lilach, and Stephen on the future of generative AI in higher education.

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Our Impact

Over three years, our symposium series has:

  • Connected thousands of educators, students, and administrators across NYU’s global network.
  • Showcased innovative pedagogical approaches from diverse disciplines and cultural contexts.
  • Advanced NYU’s strategic pathway of Interdisciplinary Impact by fostering cross-pollination across schools and departments.
  • Supported an Organizational Culture that empowers NYU faculty, staff, and students to reach for excellence in teaching and learning.
  • Documented the evolving landscape of GenAI at NYU through recorded sessions and shared resources.

Looking Forward

Each symposium builds on the insights of those before it, creating a cumulative knowledge base that serves NYU’s mission of educational excellence. By bringing together voices from across disciplines, roles, and campuses, we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible when technology meets pedagogy.

Our symposium series reflects NYU’s commitment to remaining at the forefront of educational innovation while maintaining our core values of academic integrity, student success, and scholarly excellence. As generative AI continues to evolve, so too will our exploration of its potential to enhance teaching, learning, research, and academic operations across the university.

Explore the full archive, recordings, and upcoming events at the links above. NYU’s GenAI symposia are designed to build community, share practical strategies, and empower all members of the university to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of GenAI in higher education.

NYU’s Teaching and Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium Series is hosted by the Office of the Provost and organized by De Angela L. Duff. For questions about the series, contact deangela.duff@nyu.edu.