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AI Spark Tips: Personalize Student Coaching with AI

ContactNord's AI Tutor Pro offers students opportunities to chat with AI to either check their knowledge and skills or deepen their knowledge on a topic. Students select their learning level (e.g., undergraduate or graduate), level of difficulty (introductory through advanced), their preferred language, and the topic or content they wish to explore. AI Tutor Pro … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Personalize Student Coaching with AI

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AI Spark Tips: AI Conversations for Students

Guide students to prepare for interviews, debates, or meetings with marketing clients, patients in healthcare settings, or other professionals in your discipline using artificial intelligence. The AI Conversation tool, built into your Blackboard course, enables students to work with AI in a controlled environment. You set the topic, you define the conversation persona, select Role … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: AI Conversations for Students

Blackboard Day 2025: Reaching Greater Heights with AI and Universal Design

Join us for our 5th Annual Blackboard Day in the College of Arts & Sciences Building, by accessing Zoom in the CAIFS PD Course, or by using the Zoom Link! Register Now 9 am to 9:30 am Welcome and Blackboard Learn Ultra Updates Join the Blackboard Support Team to learn what is new in the … Continue reading Blackboard Day 2025: Reaching Greater Heights with AI and Universal Design

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Navigating the Future of Learning with Gen AI

As Gen AI (GAI) tools proliferated across the globe during the last few semesters, did you find yourself panicked, excited, or feeling a bit of both? Were you overwhelmed by the implications for academic integrity or overcome by a sense of wonder at the boundless potential to innovate our teaching, learning, and research? However you … Continue reading Navigating the Future of Learning with Gen AI

Faculty Spotlight: Colby King

By fall semester, Forbes, Reddit, the NYT, and Berkeley Engineering were among the legions describing 2023 as the soft launch of the “the AI revolution”.  CAIFS (Center for Academic Innovation and Faculty Support) also anticipated the permanence of AI and kicked-off the fall semester with faculty guidance and discussion on the emerging multitudes of AI … Continue reading Faculty Spotlight: Colby King

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AI and ChatGPT for Instructors

We've all heard the hype about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT. For some, this technology is a death knell for original writing, learning, critical thinking, and higher education itself. Others see it as the latest in a long line of transformational technologies for learning and knowledge production, like the typewriter, the calculator, the personal computer, … Continue reading AI and ChatGPT for Instructors