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The Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) hosts speakers who are invited to campus each semester. These events help to bring new and insightful ways of thinking about teaching and learning at Wayne State. The presenters are national scholars whose areas of expertise have a broad influence on higher education and student success. The OTL coordinates a campus-wide keynote address open to all of our faculty members.

Winter 2024

C. Edward Watson headshotGenerative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others, have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create, and this evolution is clearly apparent on college campuses.  As early as January 2023, approximately 9 out of 10 college students reported using ChatGPT, and that number, as well as student competency with AI, has only grown since then. AI is present in our college classrooms, and there is also growing demand for graduates who possess AI competencies and literacies.  Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning(Johns Hopkins University Press), this keynote will explore the evolving AI landscape and detail the companion challenges and opportunities that are emerging for higher education.  While academic integrity and AI detection will be discussed, the core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation.

AI’s Implications for Higher Education:  Now and in the Future

C. Edward Watson is the Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is also the founding director of AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. Prior to joining AAC&U, Dr. Watson was the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia (UGA) where he led university efforts associated with faculty development, TA development, learning technologies, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He continues to serve as a Fellow in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at UGA and recently stepped down after more than a decade as the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.  His most recent book is Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Dr. Watson been quoted in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Campus Technology, EdSurge, EdTech, Consumer Reports, UK Financial Times, and University Business Magazine and by the AP, CNN and NPR regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 23; Student Center Hilberry ABC

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Previous speakers

  • Dr. Stephen John Quaye

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    Dr. Stephen John Quaye: "Fostering Student Engagement through an Equity Lens" noon - 2 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023.

  • Dr. Bettina L. Love, Winter 2022

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    Dr. Bettina L. Love: "Living A Hip Hop & Abolitionist Life: Resistance, Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Black Joy," noon - 2 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2022

  • Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn, Winter 2021
    Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn: Teaching the Days After, What to do when you don't know what to do
    Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn: Teaching the Days After, What to do when you don't know what to do
  • Dr. Thomas Tobin, Winter 2019
    Dr. Thomas Tobin: Five Teaching Secrets for Success with Today's Mobile, Time Crunched Students
    Dr. Thomas Tobin: Five Teaching Secrets for Success with Today's Mobile, Time Crunched Students
  • Dr. Saundra McGuire, Winter 2017
    Flyer for Saundra McGuire, Keynote Speaker at the 2017 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 28, 2018, with a talk entitled Teach Students How to Learn sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Saundra McGuire, Keynote Speaker at the 2017 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 28, 2018, with a talk entitled Teach Students How to Learn sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
  • Martin Springborg, Winter 2016
    Flyer for Martin Springborg, Keynote Speaker at the 2016 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 24, 2016, with a talk entitled Teaching & Learning: Visualizing Our Work sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Martin Springborg, Keynote Speaker at the 2016 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 24, 2016, with a talk entitled Teaching & Learning: Visualizing Our Work sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
  • Dr. Valerie Young, Fall 2015
    Flyer for Valerie Young, Keynote Speaker at the 2015 event for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate students on November 15, 2015, with a talk entitled Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome & How to Thrive in Spite of it sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Valerie Young, Keynote Speaker at the 2015 event for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate students on November 15, 2015, with a talk entitled Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome & How to Thrive in Spite of it sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
  • Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta, Winter 2015
    Flyer for Nilanjana Dasgupta, Keynote Speaker at the 2015 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 19. 2019, with a talk entitled Five Teaching Secrets for Success with Today's Mobile, Time-Crunched Student sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Nilanjana Dasgupta, Keynote Speaker at the 2015 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 19. 2019, with a talk entitled Five Teaching Secrets for Success with Today's Mobile, Time-Crunched Student sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
  • Dr. Carl Wieman, Fall 2014
    Flyer for Carl Wieman, Keynote Speaker at the 2014 WSU event on September 16, 2015, with a talk entitled Taking a Scientific APproach to Science Education sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Carl Wieman, Keynote Speaker at the 2014 WSU event on September 16, 2015, with a talk entitled Taking a Scientific APproach to Science Education sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
  • Dr. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Winter 2014
    Flyer for Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Keynote Speaker at the 2014 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 19, 2014, with a talk entitled Stereotype Threat and the Psychology of Achievement Gaps: Causes and Solutions to Student Underperformance sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning
    Flyer for Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Keynote Speaker at the 2014 WSU Innovations in Teaching & Learning Luncheon on March 19, 2014, with a talk entitled Stereotype Threat and the Psychology of Achievement Gaps: Causes and Solutions to Student Underperformance sponsored by the Office for Teaching & Learning