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Programme of Events

Please see below for a draft schedule of proceedings

Monday
9am: Registration open
9.45am: Conference launch by Prof. Niamh Hourigan (Mary Immaculate College)
Introduction by Katherine Whitehurst & Mary-Claire Kennedy.
10am: Keynote - Dr Christine O'Dea (King's College London)
Gen AI is here to stay. What is the way forward for higher education globally?

Chair & question facilitator: Mary-Claire Kennedy & Fionn McGrath
11am: Break

11.30am: Panel 1 - Perspectives and Experiences; Co-design and Stakeholder Engagement
Chair: Nuala Harding

  • David Rinehart (Dublin Business School) - Teaching Librarians Tackle Gen AI: Data Driven Gen AI Workshops in the Library
  • Dr Mairead Greene & Dr Michelle Tooher (University of Galway) - Exploring the use of Gen AI in assessment with academics across and within disciplines.
  • Dr Susan Bens (University of Saskatchewan) - Using the notion of cognitive offloading to enable adaptive thinking in a Gen AI-augmented world.
  • Dr Loretta Goff (University College Cork) - GenAI LEARN: Developing Student Literacy and Responsible Use
12.50pm: Lunch

1.50pm: Panel 2 - Curriculum Design, Teaching and Learning (Part 1)
Chair: Angélica Rísquez

  • Dr Andrew Browne (Dublin Business School) - Battling and/or Welcoming Gen AI: Strategies for Modern Teaching and Assessment
  • Dr Lorcan Cronin (MIC) - Artificial Intelligence in Physical Education: Opportunities, Threats and Strategies
  • Dr Fionn McGrath (University of Limerick) - AI²: What constitutes Academic Integrity in the age of AI?
2.50pm: Break

3.20pm: Panel 3 - Designing Sustainable and Robust Policy
Chair: Silvia Benini

  • Dr Justin Tonra (University of Galway) - Crafting and Deploying Gen AI-Responsive Academic Integrity Policies and Procedures
  • Dr Catherine Hack (Advance HE) - Co-creating a Culture of Academic Integrity for an AI-enabled Higher Education Sector
Tuesday

10am: Panel 4 - Assessment Reform and Redesign in an era of Generative AI
Chair: Michael Wride

  • Dr Patrick Buckland (Mary Immaculate College) - The AI Contribution Scale; Disclosing AI usage in academic written assessments
  • Alan Carr (Technological University of the Shannon - Midwest) - Mapping & Managing Academic Assessment Risk
  • Samantha Xu & Dr Martina Crehan (Dublin City University) - Back to the Start; Redesigning Robust Assessments in GenAI Environments: Principles, Strategies, Frameworks and Examples
11am: Break

11.30am: Panel 5 - Curriculum Design, Teaching and Learning (Part 2)
Chair: Jean Reale

  • Dr Gwen Moore (Mary Immaculate College) - Gen AI Literacy and Authentic Assessment: Problematising Bias and Ethics in Partnership with Students
  • Dr Patrick Browne (Technological University of the Shannon) - Rethinking Third level Mathematics Education in the Age of AI
  • Dr Zeta Dooly & Dr Brian Casey (South East Technological University) - Navigating the waters from vision to viability; adopting VR in the classroom and its alignment to curriculum 
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Geraldine McDermott
2.30pm: Break

3pm: Keynote Speaker - Dr Daniel Schiff (Purdue University)
Dilemmas in the AI-enabled classroom: Navigating pedagogy, ethics, and transformation in the era of AIED

Chair & question facilitator - Katherine Whitehurst & Patrick Buckland

4pm: End of day