April 4th DOLCE on Teaching with AI and with Open Educational Resources
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, April 4th, at noon (via Zoom) for our April DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you can’t join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.
This first DOLCE of the spring quarter will feature a talk on the hot-button issue of artificial intelligence, especially the generative AI research and brainstorming tool NotebookLM, a Google product. I have started to play with this tool as an assistant to help me plan new courses and new book projects.
A colleague from Religious Studies has also been investigating NotebookLM as a teaching tool. In a talk titled “Mixed Results: Lessons from Integrating AI into a Medium Sized Lower Division Humanities Course,” Mairaj Syed reflects on his integration of AI technologies (notably NotebookLM) into the structure of his course, RST 1H: Sex, Marriage, and Divorce in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In his talk, Professor Syed will describe how he introduced the tool, had his students use the tool to collect and process course documents, data sources, and concepts, as well as the tool’s impact on student learning.
Our second speaker, Briel Brown, a 2024-2025 AggieOpen Fellow, will be giving a talk titled “Cultivating & Facilitating Collaborative, Sustained Dialogue with OER Course Materials.” Brown’s talk will touch upon themes that we will revisit at the 2025 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (September 11 and 12) where our theme will be “30 Years of SITT: Reaching Every Learner.”
See you on April 4th!
Dr. Andy Jones
Academic Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis
DOLCE talks on Teaching with AI and with Open Educational Resources
Friday, April 4th at Noon via Zoom
Register now!
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