ITS Teaching & Learning offers a workshop series to integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into academic practices in response to the evolving education technology landscape. The series aims to equip our academic community with the requisite skills for leveraging GenAI in teaching and learning, as well as professional and personal productivity.
New! Generative AI Mini-Workshop Series
ITS is thrilled to announce the launch of a GenAI mini-workshop series designed to offer a rich, engaging experience in just 45 minutes per session. With an expanded range of topics, these ten workshops are tailored to meet the varied interests and needs of instructors, staff, and students.
Each workshop topic will be offered twice a week over ten weeks, allowing participants the flexibility to complete the entire series with their choice of one 45-minute workshop per week. Participants will be able to earn new badges for participating in the series.
To view workshop descriptions of the entire series, visit the Generative AI Mini-Workshop Series Overview Document.
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Beginner/Core Mini Workshops
- Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts
- Audience: Instructors, Staff, and Students
- Critical Challenges in GenAI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias
- Audience: Instructors, Staff, and Students
- From Basics to Brilliance: Prompt Engineering with U-M GPT
- Audience: Instructors, Staff, and Students
- Prompt to Picture: How GenAI Can Help You Create Custom Visuals
- Audience: Instructors, Staff, and Students
- The GenAI Educational Landscape: Best Practices for Instructors
- Audience: Instructors
Intermediate/Advanced Mini Workshops
- Harness U-M Maizey for Teaching and Learning
- Audience: Instructors and Students
- Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey
- Audience: Staff
- Boost Teaching and Learning Productivity with GenAI
- Audience: Instructors
- Boost Work Productivity with GenAI
- Audience: Staff
- Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and GoBlue App
- Audience: Students, Instructors, and Staff
Looking for Further Support with Teaching in a Generative AI Era?
Generative AI Considerations for Teaching and Learning
- Visit the Generative AI section of this site for deeper-dive resources on GenAI considerations for teaching and learning.
- Getting Started with Generative Artificial Intelligence: U-M Instructor Guide
Generative Artificial Intelligence at U-M
- ITS AI Services: ITS is now offering a generative AI platform available to all active U-M faculty, staff, and students on the Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine.
- This Generative AI at U-M website offers an in-depth explanation of GenAI, guidance on GenAI, and resources such as training, research, AI tools, and prompt literacy.
- Visit the U-M Guidance for Faculty/Instructors section of the site for GenAI academic/teaching implications
Generative AI Consultations
U-M has several instructional support professionals who can help you understand technologies at U-M, including GenAI, and help you to achieve the best results in your teaching. To request a consultation, fill out the Instructional Support interest form and you will be connected with the most appropriate U-M instructional support group.