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A ContactNorth Webinar Date: Monday, March 6, 2023 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT is causing a stir in schools, colleges, and universities. Some banned it, seeing it as a threat to academic integrity and an “engine” for academic misconduct. Others embraced it as a project and…
New Faculty Orientation will be held in person on March 14th, from 9am-12:30pm in room 3F.37 Dawson’s New Faculty Orientation is designed to introduce new faculty to information about college services and procedures, teaching at the college-level, and tips for engaging students. The orientation includes asynchronous and synchronous components: Welcome from the Deans and Directors…
Monday, February 20, 2023 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. This event is free and is available in-person or online A Concordia 4th Space Event Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it’s important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such…
February 17th, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 Paul Kirschner is the author of over 400 scholarly articles and one of the most highly cited scholars. His 2020 publication, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice, has been a bestseller. And his 2022 follow-up, How Teaching Happens, promises to be…
On the theme of contemplative pedagogical practices Contemplation, described by Hart (2004) as a ‘third way of knowing’ that is complementary to ‘rational and sensory knowing’ has emerged in an array of classroom practices from primary through higher education. Research links contemplative practices to cognitive and character development through activities that improve concentration, self-awareness and…
Is AI a Valid Source? Monday February 13 2 to 3 pm With Sharon Coyle, Master Teacher Program (MTP), Performa faculty, University of Sherbrooke “Are you worried about the impact of ChatGPT on your students’ academic integrity? Want to learn how to prepare for and address potential misuse in your classroom? Join our one-hour webinar and gain a deeper…
January 23, 2023 Faculty Focus Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to…
Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Plagiarism and Academic Writing. Hosted by Partnership on University Plagiarism Prevention (PUPP) In this webinar we will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on academic integrity and plagiarism. Specifically, we will look at algorithmic writing technologies such as Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), what these are, how they…
On Wednesday January 18, 2023, at 1:30 p.m., a one-hour information session will be held to answer any of your questions about the CCDMD’s 2023 call for projects. Several members of the CCDMD staff will be there to answer any questions you may have: project eligibility, production process, etc. The session will be held in French, but questions…
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