All events are virtual and in Eastern time unless otherwise noted.

Generative artificial intelligence tools are here to stay, but LILE is ready to help you adapt to using AI at work. This spring, we are offering multiple events that focus on practical ways to engage with generative AI in your everyday work as a staff or faculty member.

AI Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence

Friday, February 23 | 12 - 1 pm

In this workshop we will trace the impact of generative AI over the last year. We will review what generative AI means and discuss how natural language processing has created an AI accessible to all. Finally we will discuss the basics of how to use generative AI. This means how to create prompts that will get you the best results in your conversations with the AI. This will be an educational session and not hands-on instruction.

*This event is likely to fill but all registrants will receive a recording of the session.

Talking to Students about Generative AI: Leaning into AI Literacy

Friday, March 8 | 12 - 1 pm

As educators, we have a mandate to be personally informed about generative AI and articulate our stance on the use of generative AI in our classrooms and disciplines. This is a challenge for instructors who are short on time and don't have a background in the study of artificial intelligence. This presentation provides an opportunity to get a jump start on this work. It presents suggestions about how to become AI literate ourselves and speak to students about this important topic.

Teaching Evaluation as a Tool for Supporting and Rewarding Effective Teaching

Friday, February 23 | 3:30 - 4:30 pm
French Family Science Center 2231

Sponsored by Duke Biology

This interactive seminar will raise questions about how teaching and teaching improvement are supported, incentivized, and rewarded in R1 universities. Tessa Andrews, UGA's Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, will present research-based practices for robust and equitable teaching evaluation and cases of how STEM departments have moved beyond relying solely on student course evaluations. The seminar will present lessons learned from the DeLTA project at the University of Georgia and invite the audience to consider how they would like their teaching to be supported and evaluated and possible paths forward.

Pedagogies of Care Lunch & Learn Series: Trauma-Informed Teaching

Monday, February 26 | 12 - 1 pm

How does trauma impact learning? As educators, how can we ethically create learning experiences that take trauma into account? What does it mean to be trauma-informed? In this lunch and learn session, Professors Jan Holton and Warren Kinghorn from Duke Divinity School will share their work on trauma-informed teaching.

Make Your Canvas Course Accessible for All Students with UDOIT

Monday, February 26 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Offered by CidiLabs

Are you interested in making your Canvas course more accessible and easy to use - particularly to accommodate students with disabilities? UDOIT Advantage scans your Canvas courses automatically, identifies issues and quick fixes, and provides guidance to improve accessibility with ease – and Duke provides this service for free to all faculty and staff.

Controversy in the Classroom

Wednesday, March 6 | 12 - 1:15 pm
Brodhead Center, Bolton Family Tower Room

Part of the Bass Society Seminar on Teaching Excellence

What are best practices for teaching controversial subjects in our undergraduate classrooms? How does one foster a rich and open space for learning on difficult subjects, while remaining sensitive to the range of student viewpoints and lived experiences? What strategies might we employ that maximize student exploration and listening, while minimizing classroom polarization? Rebecca Stein will lead this open discussion drawing on more than two decades of teaching on Palestine and Israel. This session will also involve a group conversation in which participants will share strategies from their own classroom experiences.

Up Home: One Girl's Journey
A Conversation with Author Ruth Simmons

Wednesday, March 20 | 4 - 5 pm

Part of Stanford University and Trinity College's Academic Innovation for the Public Good series

Ruth Simmons is the former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University. In her memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey , she describes her path from childhood in rural poverty as a daughter of East Texas sharecroppers, to achieving a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard, to university leadership. Against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, she honors the teachers who challenged her, the family who rooted her, and the power of precise expression, truth-telling, and self-knowledge to create social change.

Canvas Workshops

Multiple Dates & Times

Spring 2024 is the last term instructors may use Sakai at Duke. We will continue to offer Canvas workshops monthly throughout the semester to provide ample opportunities to learn the best practices for using Canvas. We have also added a new workshop focused on accessibility - see all of our upcoming Canvas workshops here.