What is missing from the current debate are insights from performance studies. Since ChatGPT remixes statistically most likely combinations of words, its outputs are in fact a form of theatrical performance. It draws on users’ prompts and the publics’ collective memories to produce improvised performances, within specific parameters, for its user-audiences.
Faculty Perspectives: Creating Open Education Resources Wednesday April 12, 2023, 1 pm eastern time Zoom link at: https://open.wrlc.org/events/wed-04122023-1300 Alexa Alice Joubin, author of the open-access Screening Shakespeare, https://screenshakespeare.org/, will share how she created the textbook. Open Education Resources (OER) for higher education have made significant progress over the last few decades. Textbook affordability continues…
Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as: What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical? In this symposium, we hope to open a discussion on the philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural, challenges that A.I. poses for our society.
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin recently spoke at a roundtable on artificial intelligence and higher education. Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin embraces instructional AI in her classroom From AI that write papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on…
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.
Alexa Alice Joubin will be speaking at the 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day to address openly-licensed digital tools that foster inclusiveness in the classroom. The event takes place in Gelman Library Room 218A at 1:15 pm on October 6, 2022. Here is the poster. There are multiple ways to facilitate…
In this workshop we will get started creating a custom online space for communicating to and inspiring your students. You will follow a simple approach reflecting on the student’s perspective and pulling together a story to tell using Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
A Historical Mapping of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Around the Globe Speaker: Clara Montague Monday, March 7, 2022, from 3: 45 pm to 4:30 pm EST on Zoom. Meeting ID: 757 446 5504 This event is part of our Women’s History Month celebrations and helps us mark International Women’s Day! Clara Montague is a…
Have you found that you have the spark of an idea for creating something digital to enhance your teaching and/or student activity, but aren’t sure what to do next? Are you finding that your mind is taking you in multiple directions as to what the content should be, how it can be presented, how it…
Registration is now open for our Day(s) of Digital Learning. The workshops will be held on several days throughout the two-week period spanning February 21–March 4, 2022. The Day(s) of Digital Learning will feature a varied menu of sessions involving hands-on, participatory work with digital tools and resources. The events will be open to all RSA members without charge. More…
