Register for AI conference on February 28

Spring 2025 Excellence in Teaching & Learning Event:
AI in Teaching and Learning

 

Friday, Feb 28 | Blue Ridge Conference Rooms | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Poster for the 2025 Excellence in Teaching Event on AI. It includes a qr code to register now.

Join us for one of the Coulter Faculty Commons’ signature events. This year’s theme focuses on Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning. We’re excited to partner with Hunter Library to bring two outstanding speakers to WCU. The event also features a faculty panel showcasing practical applications of AI in teaching and research.

Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to engage with experts, explore AI’s potential, and connect with colleagues. Read more about the presenters and view the schedule of events on our 2025 ETLE Blog Post.

Lunch is included for those who register by February 23. Register today, we look forward to seeing you there! 

ETLE – Spring 2025

Join our Excellence in Teaching & Learning Event (ETLE) focused on AI this February!

Our Excellence in Teaching & Learning Event (ETLE) that was originally planned for October 2024 will now be held on Friday, February 28. We have partnered with the Hunter Library to bring in two external experts on AI as speakers, Tony Elkins and William Duffy.

Blue Ridge Conference Center (Blue Ridge 108A) from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 am Welcome
9:30 – 10:30 am Tony Elkins
Ethics of AI
Students are invited to this session
10:45 – 11:45 am Will Duffy
Inductive, Inclusive, Iterative: Developing AI Literacy in Practice
12:30 – 1:45 pm AI Faculty Panel
1:55  – 3:30 pm Workshop: Using AI in your teaching

 

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Headshot of Tony Elkins.

Tony Elkins, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, is a faculty member at Poynter. His portfolio includes Poynter’s early and mid-career leadership workshops Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders and the Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media. He is a founding member of the News Product Alliance and has an extensive product and project management background. He is one of Poynter’s generative AI experts, specializing in ethics, use cases and effects of visual AI models. Elkins is the co-author of Poynter’s AI Ethics Handbook. He will speak about the ethics of AI. 

William Duffy is a Professor of English at the University of Memphis where he is Director of Graduate Studies and teaches in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication program.He will share insights from his current research on teaching with AI and will conduct a hands-on workshop where you can bring an assignment or assessment to modify. 

Headshot of William Duffy.