This series of short, captioned videos – with companion audio files and transcripts – is part of a broad effort to support Teaching & Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at Syracuse. CTLE and CLASS launched this ongoing effort in January 2023. To date, it has included advisory memos, a three-part faculty conversation series, and an online resource guide. As the Fall 2023 semester approaches and artificial intelligence expands in exciting, challenging, and complex directions, we are collaborating with an informal faculty working group to offer additional support to Syracuse faculty and instructors.
This set of videos begins with an introduction followed by interdisciplinary conversation around five questions about teaching and learning in our fast-changing artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. We invite you to watch, listen, or read the segments relevant to your teaching. Please also email ctle@syr.edu If you have requests or ideas for how CTLE can better support faculty with regard to AI or other aspects of teaching and learning.
I am deeply grateful to our trio of faculty video conversationalists, Roger Hallas (English), Laura Lisnyczyj (Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics), and Zeke Leonard (Design), and to my CTLE colleague, Jacques Safari Mwayaona, for the creative ideas they share in these recordings. I am also deeply grateful to other members of our informal CTLE-CLASS Faculty Working Group on Teaching and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence whose lively summer conversation around these topics shaped our recommended syllabus language on artificial intelligence as well as this video discussion: Jonna Gilfus (Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition); Denise Heckman (Design); Jay Henderson (Biomedical and Chemical Engineering); Jing Lei (Education); and Bei Yu (School of Information Studies).
I also wish to extend my thanks to all the participants in our Spring 2023 faculty conversation series: Crystal Bartolovich (English); Chris Forster (English); Roy Gutterman (Magazine, News and Digital Journalism); Garrett Katz (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Jing Lei (Education); Zeke Leonard (Design); Gina Luttrell (Public Relations); Yves Michel (Design); Ivan Pechenezhskiy (Physics); Dan Pacheco (Magazine, News and Digital Journalism); Denis Samburskiy (Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics); and Yasir Ahmed-Braimah (Biology), who also put in weekend coding work to help us create the transcripts for this video series.
With best wishes for the fall semester,
Margaret L. Usdansky
Interim Director, CTLE / Founding Director, CLASS / Research Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science