2024 AI Institute for Smarter Learning
Building Momentum with Generative AI at UNC Charlotte
2023 AI Institute: Becoming AI-Ready
Generative AI is shaping our professional work, classroom learning experiences, and personal lives.
Last May 2023, the Center for Teaching and Learning held the 2023 AI Institute for Smarter Learning to convene as a community of educators. We explored how generative AI might help us reach our student success goals while also navigating the unknown impact of generative AI in higher education. The 2023 AI Institute was widely regarded as a success, establishing pathways toward becoming an AI-Ready campus.
On its second year, the 2024 AI Institute for Smarter Learning hopes to build on these pathways, leveraging our momentum to continue shaping the way we think about, teach with, and learn with generative AI.
2024 AI Institute: From AI-Ready to AI-Empowered
The 2024 AI Institute for Smarter Learning is intended to serve the UNC Charlotte community of faculty, administrators, and staff by showcasing innovative and practice-based approaches to the use of generative AI across our campus.
We are excited to engage with you as we explore a year’s worth of experience using generative AI in your classroom. The institute offers the opportunity to bring together UNC Charlotte educators to holistically come together, collaborate, and explore strategies on how to become more confident, productive, and effective with generative AI.
Through knowledge sharing, hands-on demonstrations, and bold discussions with colleagues, we can continue to pave the way forward, learning to leverage AI in ways that transform the ways we teach and the ways our students learn.
At the Charlotte AI Institute for Smarter Learning, we aim to drive our campus from AI-Ready to AI-Empowered!
Why Attend
- Convene as a community of educators to explore how AI can help meet student success goals
- Build knowledge and skills to comfortably navigate the use of generative AI tools for teaching and learning
- Gain hands-on practice with generative AI tools
- “Listen” to the campus: Stories, experiences, challenges, solutions from faculty, staff, and administrators
- Engage in bold discussions to pave the way forward for our campus
Who Should Attend
This AI Institute is for anyone at UNC Charlotte interested in learning more about generative AI tools for higher education. Whether you are a faculty, administrator, staff, or just someone who is curious about the possibilities of AI, this Institute is perfect for you!
Cost
The 2nd AI Institute for Smarter Learning on May 15, 2024 is a FREE event for the UNC Charlotte community.
Session Types
- Plenary/Keynote session
- Lightning Talks
- Lesson Demonstrations
- Featured Workshop
- Technology Test Kitchen
- Bold Discussions
Call For Proposals
Registration
Registration for the AI Institute closed on April 15, 2024.
Important Dates
| Call for Proposals Opens | February 1, 2024 |
| Registration Opens | March 1, 2024 |
| Call for Proposals Closes | March 8, 2024 |
| Notice of Acceptances | March 22, 2024 |
| Registration Closes | April 15, 2024 |
| Conference Day | May 15, 2024 |
For Questions
Please direct questions to Kiran Budhrani (kbudhran@charlotte.edu), Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation in the Center for Teaching and Learning