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Learn how these open and free course materials support studentsÌýandÌýsupport faculty, as well asÌýwhere to locate these high quality open resourcesÌýand how to approach adopting an OER text and developing your own OER resources.ÌýJoin the Library,ÌýCOLRS, and UIS faculty inÌýthis informative session while celebrating Open Education Week (March 6-10th).Ìý

Celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week (February 20–24) with this session highlighting the Fair Use provisions of the copyright law which is a key factor in making copyrighted materials available for use in the classroom.Ìý What are the factors that help determine if your use is fair?Ìý How does Creative Commons Licensing and copyright work together.

Presebter: Stephen McMinn, Director of Collections and Scholarly Communications, Brookens Library

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This session will explore the creation of Anti-Racist rubrics for assessment of student work, offering an approach for putting Anti-Racist pedagogical theories into lived practice in our classroom by presenting a heuristic for creating Anti-Racist rubrics that builds on best practices established by scholars like Asao Inoue, as well as sharing examples and offering a space for discussion and collaboration.Ìý

Presenter: Stephanie Hedge, Associate Professor, English and Modern Languages

Join Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, as he leads us on an exploration of how ChatGPT and similar AI could be used as a search engine in place of Google.

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We were able to reschedule this event to be delivered on April 6.

We will consider the limitations of traditional grading methods, explore how alternative grading methods - including but not limited to ungrading – help address these limitations, and share ideas about the future of grading. Participants will be invited to share what grades mean to them and to consider the opportunities and challenges presented by alternative forms of assessment.

Join Stephanie Kratz, Coordinator of Faculty Academies, Heartland Community College through Zoom:

This week, we will be discussing the implications of using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can produce detailed responses to questions. Additionally, this session will help address questions around controlling and/or limiting those problems. Join us to learn or share in the conversation!

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Join us this week as Hei-Chi Chan (Mathematical Sciences, UIS) leads us in a discussion about how conversational artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT will impact other industries beyond education.

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ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can produce detailed responses to questions. This week's discussion will focus on the use of ChatGPT in the classroom.

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In this series, we will share ideas and ask questions related to ChatGPT. This is an opportunity to engage in an open discussion that provides educational opportunities around the use of an artificial intelligence chatbot.

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