The Center for Teaching and Learning hosts various communities of practice (CoPs) as needed by the faculty. Participating in a community of practice requires a commitment to meet together 6-8 times (about every 2-3 weeks) over the course of a semester. In most cases, CoPs work over a two-semester period. In addition to the meetings, participants will read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.
Spring 2024
- Pressbooks: Strategies for Creating and Using OER
- COEPD Doctoral Research Statistics
Fall 2024
The AI Playground: CTL Community of Practice Fall 2024
When: Fridays, 2:00-3:00 (See dates below)
Where: F2F Drinko Library (See rooms below)
Registration: Not required, come to one, some, or all sessions
Tired of staring at screens all day and feeling like the bots are winning?
Bring your laptop and join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Presidential AI Task Force this fall for a bi-weekly, one-hour, F2F, “AI Playground” – where the hallowed traditions of the ivory tower meet the wild west of large language models. These won’t be your typical sessions where an “expert” talks at you while you pretend to take notes. Instead, this will be a very loosely supervised “playground” to mess around, ask questions, experiment, and play with AI and chatbots in real time.
Whether you’re trying to figure out ways to make students do their own work beyond bluebooks and threatening death and dismemberment for using AI, or you’d like to create a custom Virgil chatbot to guide them through the perils of your syllabus or you just want to freshen up your dad jokes about standard deviation, we’ve got you covered. Our friendly neighborhood facilitators will be on hand to answer questions, offer suggestions, and dust you off when you get thrown off the AI merry-go-round…again.
Unlike the nightmare playground scene in Terminator 2 where AI goes rogue and attempts to destroy all humanity in a nuclear holocaust, at Marshall’s AI Playground you can expect some laughter, help and brainstorming from facilitators and your peers, and the occasional “Aha!” moment (that doesn’t involve being incinerated). Grab your laptop and join us in Drinko Library!
| Date | Room |
| 8/30/2024 | DL349 |
| 9/13/2024 | DL349 |
| 9/27/2024 | DL138 |
| 10/25/2024 | DL349 |
| 11/1/2024 | DL349 |
| 11/15/2024 | DL349 |
For questions, email Jamie Warner (warnerj@marshall.edu).
COEPD Doctoral Research Statistics
For questions, email April Fugett (fugett5@marshall.edu).