Colleagues,
I encourage everyone to learn about artificial intelligence and incorporate it into your teaching and research. This is vital work. As educators, we have a responsibility to equip our students with the tools they need to adapt and thrive in the workplace. That means we must convey the benefits, limitations, and ethical implications of AI, while guiding them to use these technologies thoughtfully.
To propel UCF more rapidly toward an AI-enhanced future, I am writing to highlight two opportunities: a new leadership role and professional development.
I am pleased to invite applications for the new position of Special Assistant to the Provost for Artificial Intelligence to help champion thoughtful and strategic AI use in teaching and research. The chosen candidate will engage faculty members across the university to develop AI curriculum for students in all majors while also shaping a structure to support faculty seeking to use AI in research and other activities.
Learn more about the job requirements, preferred qualifications, and how to apply. This is an internal search. My goal is to have this individual in place as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the Center for Distributed Learning and the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning have created an online professional development course, Generative AI for Innovative Teaching and Learning, available on Webcourses@UCF and through this link.
Designed by faculty for faculty, the course provides an overview of AI and explores AI technologies, prompt generation, ethical questions arising from AI applications, and best practices for integrating AI tools into teaching and learning. I also encourage you to visit the FCTL AI web page for updated resources.
AI is here to stay. As an institution focused on the future, I look forward to tapping AI’s potential to advance academic excellence and impact at UCF.
