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We use the UMBC group umbc-ai to share news about AI research, events, and opportunities at UMBC. UMBC faculty, staff, and students can join the group to receive email messages. Anyone can view past news on the group or on the AI.UMBC.EDU website. Below are short summaries of recent messages from the UMBC AI Center.

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AI in the UMBC Classroom, 12-1 Jan. 15

UMBC Winter Session Beyond the Classroom online series

There's a lot of talk about AI in the classroom, but what do we mean by that? What is the "AI" we are talking about? How and when might we use AI to enhance our teaching and learning while keeping...

Posted: January 10, 2025, 5:17 PM

Blackboard Ultra's AI Course Design Assistant Tool, 12-1pm January 8

AI-inspired assessment, question banks, journal, rubrics

Have you wondered how AI technology could transform your course preparation? Blackboard AI Course Design Assistant Tools are available for instructors in Ultra courses. In a 30-minute online quick...

Posted: December 31, 2024, 6:04 PM

Teaching with AI: two workshops for UMBC faculty and staff, January 23

In person in PAHB 337 on Thursday, January 23, 2024

Dr. José Antonio Bowen will visit UMBC on Thursday, January 23, to lead two in-person workshops for UMBC faculty and staff based on his book Teaching with AI, co-authored with C. Edward Watson,...

Posted: November 26, 2024, 11:19 AM

Teaching with AI Book Discussion: Part 3: Learning with AI

12-1 pm ET Wednesday, November 13, 2024, online

The UMBC Faculty Development Center's third and final session on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning will cover “Learning with AI", which discusses how we...

Posted: November 6, 2024, 5:49 PM

Teaching with AI, book discussion 12-1 pm Wednesday, Oct. 30, online

Learn how AI can support educators & impacts grading

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will hold the second online discussion session on Teaching with AI on Wednesday, October 30 from 12-1  based on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a...

Posted: October 26, 2024, 6:35 PM

Teaching with AI, book discussion 12-1 pm Wed., October 2, 2024

First of three discussion on this new book

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will hold a series of three online discussion sessions on Teaching with AI, based on the 2024 book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human...

Posted: September 21, 2024, 11:21 AM