PAGE 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2022–2023 - - - Nearly 30 students from Greg Reihman’s Philosophy and Technology course gave poster presentations showcasing their work on generative AI's impact on education. Colleagues, former students, and members of the Lehigh community helped wrap up Day 1 of the symposium with a tribute to Greg Skutches, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and Co-Founder of the TRAC Fellows Program, who retired this summer. Greg Reihman (l) and Jeremy Littau (r), Associate Professor of Journalism & Communication, share their perspectives on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT along with Greg Skutches and three student TRAC Fellows, at the CITL-sponsored panel discussion, The Implications of Generative AI for Teaching and Learning at Lehigh, held in March. Spring 23 CITL Faculty Fellows Each semester CITL invites faculty to submit propos als for collaborations with LTS staff to enhance and advance their pedagogical approaches. During the spring 2023 semester CITL staff and Instruction & Outreach librarians collaborated with six faculty on a wide range of projects including: • 3D printing of virus models as “means to study virus structure and understand the structural determinants that permit receptor binding, infec tivity, immune evasion/mutation, etc.” (Professor Larry Tartaglia) • Evaluation of the effect of “VR on the profi ciency (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and pragmatics of Chinese language learning.” (Professor Limei Shan) • Implementation of active learning methods to practice science communication skills in the classroom, as well as collaborate on how to structure assignments and utilize the resources here at Lehigh to best support students in their independent inquiry. (Professor Kayleigh O’Keeffe) • Incorporating a hybrid learning component in which students created immersive VR learning experiences including the collection of digital recordings, photos, videos, etc. to document their experiential learning. (Professor Teresa Cusumano) • Development of projects for a fully remote course for pre-service and active teachers on effective data visualization, including how to present time-series data, location-based data, qualitative data, and patterns in data. (Professor Zilong Pan) • Using a flipped classroom and active learning approach to create an engaging new course, “On the Origins of Racism: W.E.B. DuBois.” (Professor Hugo Ceron-Anaya) The entire Symposium was informative and interesting. – FEEDBACK FROM FACULTY ATTENDEE ChatGPT is the major issue today, so to hear best practices from experienced colleagues was tremendously helpful. – FEEDBACK FROM FACULTY ATTENDEE Supporting Student Projects At the suggestion of senior TRAC Fellow and CSE major Alex Kline, Greg Skutches met with George Witmer, Director of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Senior Capstone program to plan a CSE capstone project aimed at developing a system of collecting feedback from students on the performance of TRAC fellows as peer tutors and directing the results immediately to individual dashboards for each TRAC fellow. Developed in the spring 2023 semester, the new system is expected to drive improved performance for all TRAC fellows and provide greater program transparency. It will be deployed in fall 2023 with plans to continue this TRAC/CITL partnership for further innovation
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