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Hello USDLA friends,
Today we bring you two more sessions to review from our successful National Distance Learning Week 2023.
- Data Justice, Data Rights and AI Ethics with Farah Bennani, Ph.D., and Kae Novak, Assistant Director, Learning Design at Front Range Community College (pictured right)
- Navigating the AI Education Space: Incorporating AI Into the Learning Environment with Amrit Ahluwalia, Editor-in-Chief of The EvoLLLution; Asim Ali, Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at Auburn University;and Frederick T. Wehrle, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of California Berkeley (see more below).
Until Dec. 15: Members and potential members can view presentation material and watch these insightful sessions in our Zoom room. Click here to find the entire recap: usdla.org/2023-ndlw.
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Data Justice, Data Rights and AI Ethics
Presenters: Farah Bennani, Ph.D., and Kae Novak, Assistant Director, Learning Design at Front Range Community College
About the session: Data Justice is an emergent area of digital rights and activism that has its roots in technology is not neutral. We need to question learners’ and workers’ rights in the age of big data, surveillance capitalism, algorithmic bias, and ubiquitous AI.
About the presenters:
Farah Bennani, Ph.D., (pictured left) has more than two decades of combined leadership, instructional experience, and innovation in the STEM field. She served as vice president of the Colorado Distance Learning Association and, in 2018, won the eLearning Advocate of the Year Award from the eLearning Consortium of Colorado. championed and served as the Allied Health Curriculum Expert at the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO), developing remote-web-based science labs (RWSLB), where she designed virtual online labs curricula that allowed students to control lab activities remotely. Her leadership in STEM and online learning has resulted in her teams being the recipients of multiple grants that focus on student engagement, multiculturalism, and immersive learning in the STEM field. She presents and publishes nationally and internationally on emerging technology, augmented and virtual realities, adaptive learning, and game-based learning.
Kae Novak (pictured right) has 15 years of experience in online learning and is the Assistant Director of Learning Design at Front Range Community College. She teaches multimedia, computer information systems, and marketing courses in the Colorado Community College Systems. She is the Co-Chair of the eLearning Consortium of Colorado and has led the organization in its annual virtual and hybrid conferences for the past three years. She is currently doing research on online learning, immersive learning experiences, and social justice. Her most recent publication is co-authoring a chapter titled Constructivism for Active, Authentic Learning. |
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Navigating the AI Education Space: Incorporating AI Into the Learning Environment
Presenters: Amrit Ahluwalia, Editor-in-Chief of The EvoLLLution; Asim Ali, Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at Auburn University;and Frederick T. Wehrle, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of California Berkeley
About the session: In this panel discussion, leaders in the digital and innovative learning space will share their insights into how generative AI tools are blended into the educational environment. Panelists will reflect on how educators can navigate the tools available to them, how to assess the value of these tools, and how to teach learners to use them effectively.
About the presenters:
Asim Ali (pictured top left) is the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at Auburn University. He advances the center’s mission of providing professional development programs, services, and resources to enhance instructional innovation and support scholarly and creative activities. Ali oversees a team of more than 90 professionals, graduate students, and staff members across the center’s various units, which include Auburn Online, Biggio Teaching, Biggio Technology, Biggio Testing, and Engaged and Active Student Learning, or EASL, classrooms, and classroom buildings. Ali co-leads Auburn’s augmented and virtual reality initiative, AUX, in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology. Ali also co-leads work on artificial intelligence for the Office of the Provost to build faculty capacity for understanding and implementing AI in teaching and learning. Ali holds a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, a master’s degree in information systems management, and a Ph.D. in adult education from Auburn University.
Frederick T. Wehrle (pictured top right) is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of California Berkeley and has been at U of C Berkeley since 2018. Some of his other roles there included Assistant Dean for Academic Design and Innovation and Director of International Initiatives. Prior to that, he was Director of Accreditation and International Relations at the Center for Global Engagement at EDC Paris Business School. Wehrle holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Science from the University of Paris and a Master of Science in Behavioural ecology, neurobiology, bioinformatics, and anthropology from the University of Freiburg.
Amrit Ahluwalia (pictured at bottom) is the Editor-in-Chief of The EvoLLLution, an online newspaper focused on non-traditional higher education and the transforming postsecondary marketplace. He also serves as Director of Strategic Insights for Modern Campus. Ahluwalia was part of the team that conceived of and launched The EvoLLLution in 2011 and served as its Managing Editor from 2011-2021. Ahluwalia works personally with every contributor at The EvoLLLution to produce content that has supported the site’s rise to becoming the top resource for non-traditional higher education. |
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