Archive Workshop Descriptions
View sessions from previous years conferences. Here you will find a short description and a link to the recording of each session.
Out…Standing in My Field: What Should I Make of This Whole AI Thing, Anyway!?!??!
Lance Eaton, ABD, College Unbound
Explore some of the real challenges and concerns about how faculty navigate generative AI before pivoting into a richer discussion about the implications of these tools and their ubiquity. What are the concerns, the unknowns, and the possibilities of generative AI in the college classroom in the 21st century? The session will be a mixture of interaction between the speaker and participants drawing out what is and isn’t working while also allowing the speaker to draw upon a variety of examples, contents, and considerations that can help guide faculty to more effectively engage with generative AI. The goal will be to help participants better understand why an engaged approach (rather than dismissing or banning generative AI) will help them and their students to more effectively understand and determine the right lines to draw as it relates to generative AI’s uses in teaching, learning, and assessment.
From Original to Ultra: Transforming Your Teaching Experience
Presenters: Tammy Cummings and Sabrina Sanjida Rifa
Learn about Blackboard Ultra and it's modern look to enhance the learning experience. Come view Ultra's intuitive interface, accessibility, and responsive design. Discover key tools like the AI Design Assistant and new learning modules that streamline course organization.
Discover the full potential of Blackboard Ultra and create dynamic, accessible, and interactive learning environments that engage your students. Hear instructor and student highlights from successful pilots and walk away with practical tips and best practices to transform your courses and elevate your teaching experience. Whether you're a long-time Blackboard user or new to the platform, this session provides valuable insights and strategies to make the transition to Ultra seamless and impactful.
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Research and Creative Activity Services: From Proposal Development to Intellectual Property
Presenters: Heidi Grunwald, Sheri Anderson, Zane Gernhardt, Cindy Graffeo, & Amy Scott
Individual units within Research and Creative Activity will describe the services provided by each group. Come meet the staff and learn about everything from proposal development and proposal budgets, to intellectual property, and innovation and economic development.
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Starting the Difficult Conversation
Presenter: Shannon David Misialek
Learn how to prepare for and build your confidence before engaging in a difficult conversation.
Communication is a vital skill that every person uses on a day-to-day basis. Effective communication is critical for teams to work efficiently. Understanding and clearly communicating becomes even more important when a difficult conversation arises. A difficult conversation often occurs when emotions are high and opinions differ. In fact, 85% of employees felt that they have had to deal with a communication conflict. Therefore, being able to navigate these difficult conversations is critical. Walk away with strategies to prepare to have a difficult conversation.
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Human-Driven Generative AI and Authentic Assessment Design
Presenter: Ademola Amida, Sharley Kurtz, & Lori Swinney
Take away practical tips for generating authentic assessment using generative AI (GenAI) as a power ally in developing effective assessment. Delve into strategies grounded in the four dimensions of the authentic assessment framework, developed by O'Neill (2000), including realism, cognitive challenge, metacognition, and feedback processes.
The advent of generative AI tools and growing concerns about academic integrity underscores the need for a paradigm shift towards authentic assessment practices. Traditional assessments have faced long-standing critiques for their inability to accurately gauge a student's true understanding and ability to apply knowledge in real-world contexts (Anderson, 1998; Wiggins, 1998; Mao, Chen, & Liu, 2024). On the other hand, authentic assessments emphasize tasks that mirror real-world scenarios and require students to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills like analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (O'Neill, 2000; Shute, 2008). A well-designed authentic assessment strategy could help mitigate concerns surrounding student misuse of AI for academic dishonesty and promote academic integrity. To help address this issue, learn these practical tips and demonstrate strategies for creating authentic assessment. Delve into strategies grounded in the four dimensions of the authentic assessment framework, developed by O'Neill (2000), including realism, cognitive challenge, metacognition, and feedback processes. The session will feature a live demonstration of prompting techniques specifically designed to optimize and enhance the outputs generated by various models. The session will also introduce the you to the basic understanding of GenAI and how it works.
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All About The Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources (CADR)
Presenter: Molly McKinnon and Erika Berg
Learn about what roles and supports CADR has when working with NDSU students who have disabilities along with how CADR can support you as faculty and staff.
Learn the ins and outs of CADR, ask questions, and become familiar with different policies and procedures CADR must follow. NDSU is committed to ensuring equal access to its curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students with disabilities. Offering a range of services, The Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources (CADR) facilitates reasonable accommodations to support our students with disabilities. CADR also serves as a resource to the many University administrative units and academic departments that have responsibility for or obligations to accommodate faculty, staff and campus visitors with disabilities. The mission of the NDSU Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources is to collaborate with the NDSU community to facilitate equal access in academic pursuits, promote self-advocacy, and foster inclusion for students with disabilities.
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Encouraging Academic Honesty in the Age of AI
Moderator: Melissa Lamp
Panelists:
- Dr. Ben Braaten, Professor and Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Dennis Cooley, Professor and Chair, School of Humanities (Philosophy and Ethics)
- Dr. Sarah Crary, Assistant Director of Online Programs, Office of Teaching and Learning
- Dr. Brent Hill, Professor, School of Education
Join the discussion to learn ways you can promote academic honesty by discovering how students use technology to commit acts of academic dishonesty.
Learn techniques for encouraging an environment of academic honesty in your course. Find out ways to discourage and prevent academic dishonesty from a panel of faculty, IT, and OTL. Identify trends in student cheating, the process for turning in academic dishonesty, and how the academic community can respond.
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CCAST Support For AI-Related Research and Teaching at NDSU
Presenter: Nick Dusek
Learn about AI-related tools and services provided by NDSU's Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST), including local, national, and cloud resources.
The Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) provides advanced cyberinfrastructure for research and education at NDSU and beyond. In the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) specifically, CCAST provides a number of tools and services for research and teaching, including high-performance GPUs (Nvidia Ampere series), popular AI/ML software frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), and interactive applications (e.g., Jupyter Lab). In addition to local resources, CCAST facilitates access to a number of external resources, including national HPC and Microsoft Azure cloud resources.
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Unlocking Success: Maximizing the Power of Generationally Diverse Teams
Presenter: Lyn Telford
Diversity within teams is recognized as a cornerstone of success, enabling the pooling of varied backgrounds, experiences, and skills to achieve optimal performance. In higher education, teams inherently encompass a broad spectrum of generations, each bringing unique perspectives shaped by their respective life experiences. However, without deliberate efforts to leverage this diversity, intergenerational differences can manifest as sources of conflict, discord, and incivility, adversely affecting workplace culture, staff engagement, and retention rates.
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Giving Engaging Presentations
Presenter: Jess Jung
A presentation that does not engage its audience has little impact. In contrast, actors are experts in engaging audiences. This workshop will highlight acting practices faculty can use to strengthen their presentation skill set.
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Being a Good Partner to TCUs and Tribal Communities
Presenter: Sheridan McNeil and Dr. Hollie Mackey
Learn the importance of being a good partner to TCUs and Tribal Communities from an Indigenous perspective. Learn practices for achieving this and building true, equitable, and sustainable relationships.
Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and Communities are often approached to be partners in proposals. Unfortunately, the interest in partnering with them is typically driven by the need to fulfill a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement in a grant or proposal. Often, activities and proposals are extractive in that they may not benefit the Indigenous communities or protect their data. Delve into the concept of being a supportive partner to TCUs and Tribal Communities. Indigenous Peoples often emphasize the idea of "being a good relative," which holds significant meaning beyond typical human kinship roles. Indigenous peoples have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to the global STEM and research communities through their ancestral knowledge of caring for the earth (Unci Maka) and sustainable use of resources. Gain insights and recognize the importance and value of these partnerships from an Indigenous perspective. Learn practices aimed at establishing genuine, equitable, and sustainable partnerships and protecting Indigenous data sovereignty and ensure your partnerships and projects are not extractive.
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Artificial Intelligence in Application
Presenter: Shannon David Misialek, Matt Dresher, & Joshua Woodridge
Discuss the practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching applied education.
As educators, it is critical to be immersed in and understand new technology. One new technology that has infiltrated the education community is Artificial Intelligence (AI). For example, ChatGPT was released in 2022 and has been a hot topic of discussion on its ethical use in education by both students and faculty. Using AI in the educational setting has the potential to increase student learning and decrease educator workload. In applied educational settings, such as health care or the STEM fields, students benefit from experiential and problem-based learning activities that simulate real-world problems they will face in their careers. Such activities could be enhanced by the use of AI. However, not all AI software is created equal. It is important to choose software that closely matches the outcomes students will achieve, and this can be difficult for those who are not as up-to-date on current technology. Come discuss current AI trends in the educational space as well as potential ways to use these AI software in applied education through the lens of experiential and problem-based learning in a peer-to-peer discussion-based presentation.
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Moving Your Technologies/Ideas From Lab To Market With I-Corps
Presenter: Michael Russell and Jessica Vold
Learn about NSF's I-Corps programs. Find out how your research will benefit from getting out of the lab and talking to end-users, decision makers, saboteurs, and stakeholders surrounding your projects/research.
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Managing Conflict With Emotional Intelligence
Presenter: Kristine Paranica
Learn how improving our Emotional Intelligence can help you navigate conflict and improve your ability to have difficult conversations.
Explore what is known as Emotional Intelligence, and how it can help you understand yourself better. As a key leadership skill, managing conflict is critical to having healthy relationships and workplace climate. This fall we dig deeper into E.I. and Conflict Management skills as a follow up to this session.
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Why "Laziness" Might Be A Myth
Presenter: Kendra Woodstead
Let's debunk laziness and take a look at how motivation plays a role in student learning. We'll cover some foundational theories about motivation and talk about how you can apply them to perspectives on student engagement and enjoyment of learning.
Explore the idea that a stereotypical view of "laziness" may be the fundamental attribution error at work. The fundamental attribution error is when: "We view our own challenges or difficulties as having rational explanations, for example, When a student does poorly on a test or assignment, they see how the busy week they had managing classes and their job, the fact that their car broke down, etc. contributed to their inability to prepare as much as they might've liked" When another person experiences their own challenges or difficulties, we can often be more apt to consider it a character flaw, for example, "That student did poorly because they are lazy and didn't want to study." A perspective I'd like to share in this session is that we can view people as being more naturally motivated to do things they enjoy or that interest them, and less motivated to do things that don't check those boxes and that's okay. We can apply this understanding of motivation to education by looking at what types of content and strategies you can use to encourage student motivation and develop genuine enjoyment and engagement in their learning.
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NDSU Event Calendars
Presenter: Melissa Lamp, CeCe Rohwedder, Event Services, & Student Activities
Event planners unite! Come learn more about event planning and hosting.
You'll learn more about using resources such as the Campus Events Calendar and the myNDSU calendar, so as to avoid scheduling events that overlap and conflict with one another, and to market your event to the campus community.