NYU Data Services (NYU Libraries and IT), the Graduate School of Arts & Science Master’s College, and the Arts & Sciences Office of Teaching Excellence and Innovation are excited to launch a new extension of the Foundations of Research Computing (FORC) Camp training opportunity for graduate students! Given the strong interest in data skills development […]
Still wondering about Generative AI? Here are some NYU Resources
While the landscape of teaching in higher education is always changing, the disruption brought on by the availability of Generative AI can leave many instructors feeling overwhelmed and unsure of where to start. For those of you who missed it, the Office of the Provost offered a series of Generative AI workshops in August of […]
Generative AI Updates – Live Syllabus and Faculty Development Resources
As we begin another semester and set expectations with our students, it’s important to include our expectations for generative AI use in our syllabi and initial course discussions. Your approach is dependent upon your context, including your discipline, course, student cohort, or the learning outcomes you have set for a particular assignment. For some, generative […]
Faculty Development Opportunity – Getting Started with Generative AI Course
Generative AI continues to fill headlines and occupy conference agendas and, although the landscape of education continuously evolves, the impact of generative AI seems to be causing a particular shock for institutions. In an effort to provide faculty with the foundational knowledge they need to begin exploring the limitations and possibilities of such tools in […]
Watch Party for NYU’s Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Conference
We had a great time hosting our watch party for NYU’s Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Conference! The LaGuardia Student Technology Center graciously hosted our event and the set-up was perfect. Cozy chairs surrounding a big screen fully equipped to join Zoom meetings and conferences. We even had our own camera set-up so […]
Redesigning Assignments to Acknowledge General Access to Generative AI
Widespread access to generative AI tools necessitates revisiting assignments to make them at the very least less vulnerable to breaches of academic integrity, but also to find opportunities to transform them into vehicles for promoting better understanding and critical use of these tools by students. Two things are certain: There is no silver bullet response. […]
Worried about ChatGPT? Get started with these resources and workshops
As another academic year approaches, we would be hard pressed to find an instructor who hasn’t at least heard of ChatGPT or other Generative AI tools. The widespread availability and use of this technology has caused quite a stir, leading many in the field of Higher Education to reconsider what it means to evaluate student […]
Contract Grading, Generative AI, and the Quest for Authentic Assessment
Contract Grading is an alternative grading format in which course grades are based on students’ fulfillment of a predetermined set of learning activities rather than solely on their performance on those activities. Two good examples of Arts & Science faculty use of contract grading can be found in Angela Zito’s Course Exemplar Design Gallery and […]
Update on Turnitin
Have you ever used Turnitin? Turnitin is NYU’s licensed plagiarism detector, which is fully integrated into Brightspace. The way the tool works is that Turnitin is first enabled on an assignment in the Brightspace Assignments tool. While there are a number of custom settings that can be configured in Turnitin, the general function of the […]