Enhance Student Learning with Personalized Support and Activities with Your Own Generative AI Course Assistant

Two hands on zoom workshops are offered:

Tuesday, January 14, 1:00 – 2:30 PM: Registration
Thursday, January 16, 9:30 – 11:00 AM: Registration

Workshop Description:

Interested in trying out GenAI in your course to support student learning?
This workshop is designed to help you create an AI assistant that is tailored to
your course materials and learning objectives with the following features:

• Personalized: A tailored AI chatbot assistant (looks like ChatGPT) that
  helps students based on your course materials and objectives
• Trustworthy: The AI assistant provides source links to your course
  materials in each response and shows students where they can learn more
• Controllable: Instructors control how the AI responds to students: e.g.,
  prevent it from giving away homework solutions, encourage critical thinking
• Transparent: Instructors see every student conversation (anonymized)
  and a dashboard summarizing weekly usage and insights from all
  conversations (common questions, misconceptions, etc.)
• Activities: Instructors can create any type of AI-led activity to encourage
  critical thinking: e.g., Reading Reflection, Debate, Role Play, Quiz Me,
  Predict-Observe-Explain, Exam Tutoring, and more
• Private: No course materials or student data are used to train AI models

Workshop Goal:

In this workshop, you will create your own AI Course Assistant using HITA and customize it for your course materials. You are free to use it as you see fit in the Spring semester. The HITA platform has been used by nearly 5,000 students in the past two years, including in several Cornell courses.

Workshop Leader:  Rene Kizilcec (kizilcec@cornell.edu)

Rene  is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell and Director of the Future of Learning Lab. His research focus is on AI in education and learning. He has been using HITA in his
Learning Analytics (INFO 4100) course. He also serves as chief scientist of HITA.