Finding our Way within a Changing Landscape: Faculty Responses to Generative AI
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Date: Friday, February 27th, 2026
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: PCN 2012
Description:
Generative AI (Gen AI) platforms have upended traditional ways of teaching across all disciplines in higher education. Several university assignments and assessment measures have been rendered obsolete by publicly available LLMs that can produce outputs for class assignments within seconds. AI Literacy has emerged as one way for faculty to orient themselves within this new landscape. Emerging definitions of AI Literacy go beyond understanding the functionality of GenAI or its potential for public transformation to include critical perspectives too (such as the potential for biased and misinformation, energy consumption, academic integrity, data privacy, and intellectual property rights). Equally important are the pedagogical choices for when, why, how, or whether to incorporate GenAI into their teaching. For this presentation, she will discuss how 20 university faculty from both the U.S. and Germany are responding to GenAI in their teaching. Drawing on the frameworks of AI Literacy and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) can help faculty make sense of competing demands and develop purposeful, context-sensitive instructional strategies in higher education.
Bio: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/neumann-maureen/
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