On Friday, May 2 ATS held our May faculty DOLCE presentations and discussion.
Whitney
Duim, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Chemistry, spoke on “Shared Google slides for scientific research,
collaboration, and community-building in a Course-based Undergraduate
Research Experience.”
Professor Duim explained how she
uses Google slides in her First-Year Seminar Course-based Undergraduate
Research Experience (FYS-CURE) to help her students understand research
articles, design research projects, share their data, and build a
classroom research community.
Jennifer Choi, Associate
Professor of Teaching from Biomedical Engineering spoke on “Using
AI to provide personalized peer feedback in a large team-based course.”
In
Dr. Choi’s yearlong Biomedical Engineering (BME) senior design course,
student teams participate in periodic peer evaluations, rating their own
and their teammates’ contributions, as well as providing instructors
with feedback about their teammates. This approach provides students a
mechanism for communicating strengths and suggestions for their
teammates, thus improving everyone’s teamwork skills. Dr. Choi
reviewed various approaches to peer feedback and explore generative AI as a
tool to strengthen the feedback offered to every student.
