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Join us on Friday, August 25, for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities generative artificial intelligence presents for teaching and learning at the college level. John Zumbrunnen, UW–Madison vice provost for teaching & learning, will lead a panel to discuss policies, principles and best practices and will field audience questions. You can find resources for instructors on the Teaching & Learning Generative AI – Instructional Opportunities and Challenges page.
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This is the 10th installment in our AI webinar series. You can learn more about the series, catch up on past seminars and see what we have planned next on our “Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison” page.
Town Hall on AI and Teaching & Learning
- Date: Fri, Aug 25
- Time: 9:15am to 10am Central Time
- Location: Zoom
- Cost: Free
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This virtual event will be auto-captioned. Please email us if you need additional accommodations to participate. We will share a professionally captioned video recording and any presented materials and resources on this page the week after the webinar.
About the panelists
John Zumbrunnen (moderator)
John Zumbrunnen, Ph.D., is UW–Madison senior vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of political science. As vice provost, he provides leadership, coordination and administrative support for UW–Madison’s teaching and learning mission as part of the Office of the Provost. He also partners with the vice provost for information technology on matters related to data and technology in teaching and learning. Alongside his administrative work, he leads a short-term summer study abroad program in Ireland, “UW Rebels and Revolutions in Ireland,” and co-leads a study away program, “Ecological Restoration as Civic Engagement,” in Puerto Rico. Before taking on the role of vice provost, Zumbrunnen was faculty director of Chadbourne Residential College, an educational innovation senior fellow and chair of the Department of Political Science.
Emily Hall
Emily Hall, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Teaching Faculty in the UW–Madison English department, where she also serves as Writing Center and Writing Fellows director and Writing Across the Curriculum co-director. She earned her doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has served in instructional and administrative roles at the university since 1999.
Nathan Jung
Nathan Jung, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the College of Engineering, where he
Jonathan Klein
Jonathan Klein serves as the director of the Instructional Design Collaborative (IDC) in the College of Letters & Science (L&S), where he provides leadership for initiatives, services and partnerships with campus collaborators to support the L&S instructional mission through design, technology and creative thinking. Before he was named director of IDC, he served for 11 years as an instructional technology consultant in Learning Support Services at L&S.
Kathy Prem
Kathy Prem is associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Engineering, She oversees undergraduate and graduate student services, including student services centers (advising), engineering student development (career services, cooperative education and study abroad), undergraduate learning center (academic enhancement and tutoring), student engagement, health and wellness, and scholarships.
Tonya Schmidt
Tonya Schmidt is assistant dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards in the Student Affairs division at UW–Madison. She has worked in student affairs at UW since 2003 in areas including residence life, student conduct and the Dean of Students Office. In addition to leading the office, Schmidt’s focus includes threat assessment, nonacademic misconduct and academic misconduct. She is a Title IX deputy and member of the university’s behavior intervention and threat intervention teams.
Tamara Walker
Tamara Walker is director of DoIT Academic Technology and associate vice provost for learning technologies. She leads a diverse set of teams that collaborate with partners across campus to support the teaching and learning mission of the university. In her 25-year career at UW–Madison, she has worked for 3 campus divisions incorporating different parts of the university’s IT ecosystem, where she supported and deployed large IT systems and helped the university navigate the challenges of migrating to cloud-based products.
About the series
The “Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison” webinar series will run from June to September 2023, featuring webinars exploring a wide range of perspectives and topics relating to the rapidly advancing field of generative AI.
Sponsored by the university’s Division of Information Technology and Data Science Institute, the series aims to provide a platform for experts and visionaries in the field of AI to share their insights, research and experiences in the classroom, research lab and wider academic community.
By delving into topics such as AI ethics, cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, automation and human-machine collaboration, we hope to foster a deeper understanding of AI’s transformative potential and its implications for higher education.