Spring 2023 Webinars

Spring 2023 brought a variety of session topics including sessions on grant development, Open Educational Resources and ChatGPT.

Building Your Research Program: Developing Your Research Plan

• Tuesday, March 21
• 1:00-2:00 pm
• Dr. Jeri-Anne Lyons, AVP for Research and Dean of the Graduate School 

Join Dr. Jeri-Anne Lyons as she shares strategies for developing a short- and long-term research plan. This session is designed for early career researchers and/or those faculty who have not yet found success with securing external grant funding.

An Introduction to ChatGPT

• Wednesday, March 22
• 2:30-3:20 pm
• Dr. Matthew Farber, Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education

During this session Dr. Matthew Farber will discuss ChatGPT – what it is, how it works, and how it will impact teaching and learning in higher education.

Building Your Research Program: Developing Your Research Program

• Thursday, March 23
• 10:00-11:00 am
• Dr. Jeri-Anne Lyons, AVP for Research and Dean of the Graduate School 

In this session, Dr. Jeri-Anne Lyons shares strategies for finding funding opportunities and considerations for building research collaborations. This session is designed for early career researchers and/or those faculty who have not yet found success with securing external grant funding.

Let's Talk about the Elephant-Sized Chatbot in the Room

• Tuesday, April 4
• 11:00 -11:50 am
• Kathy Zellers and Rebecca Saunders, Instructional Design & Development

Ready or not - here it comes: ChatGPT and other forms of AI-generated content have made their way onto our campus. In this session we will examine ChatGPT and its use by faculty and students. We will begin by looking critically at its limitations and potential harmful uses, including strategies for detecting and avoiding AI cheating and plagiarism. Then we will consider how this new technology can and is being integrated as a supplemental learning tool. Comes with your burning questions about ChatGPT, and let's talk about it.

Taking the First Steps toward Textbook Affordability: Building Course Readings from Library Resources and Course Reserves

• Tuesday, April 4
• 12:30-1:45
• Stephanie Wiegand, Textbook Affordability Librarian, University Libraries

Faculty and instructors have a strong history of using library materials and library course reserves to supplement a course textbook for pedagogical reasons – to fill in knowledge gaps and to customize course content for their students. Many faculty may not recognize these practices as cost-saving measures for student – but using library materials and library course reserves does reduce costs. Have you ever considered building an entire textbook or course reading list out of library resources and library course reserves, and reducing your students’ textbook costs to $0? Do the UNC Libraries already provide multiple-user access to textbooks, chapters, articles, and other tools on your course topics? Could a few chapters from different textbooks create a new textbook that could be posted on UNC Libraries Course Reserves for your students at no cost and stay within the bounds of the fair use exception of Copyright law? Join us to explore the possibilities.