Generative AI from Performance Studies Perspectives

Generative AI from Performance Studies Perspectives

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.

Creating Open Education Resources

Creating Open Education Resources

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…

I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities

I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities

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.

AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!

AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!

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…

Renaissance Society of America 2022 Days of Digital Learning

Renaissance Society of America 2022 Days of Digital Learning

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…