Dear ICA Community,
We would like to invite you to Western Sydney University's Annual Student Perspectives on Generative AI Webinar - free and open to all.
This year we are seeking a global audience to listen to our global panel of speakers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, UK and Singapore who will discuss:
· Research on how students are navigating generative AI
· Student perspectives on partnerships with generative AI companies such as Arizona State University and Open AI
· Student perspectives on university AI policies
· Inequalities related to generative AI technologies
· Intersectional Feminist approaches to mitigating bias in generative AI
Title: Grading the Graders: Global Student Perspectives on How Universities Have Reacted to Generative AI
Date: Friday 12th July 10am - 12pm (AEST)
Register here for the zoom link: https://westernsydney.libcal.com/event/5632681
Official Welcome from Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Maryanne Dever
Professor Maryanne Dever is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President (Education) at Western Sydney University. She is a member of the Senior Executive Group and responsible for providing leadership of the University's education portfolio. She is passionate about educational renewal and ensuring learning delivers for a new generation of students. She is recognised for her work in transformation and change with a particular focus on digital uplift to support learning and the student experience. Professor Dever leads strategic educational innovation at Western Sydney to deliver the University's commitment to ensuring its students fulfill their potential to become influential global citizen-scholars in a technology-enabled world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Queensland and a Master of Arts (Hons) and PhD from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining Western Sydney University in 2023, she worked at a number of universities, including The Australian National University where she introduced a new learning and teaching strategy and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where she made major contributions to the digital transformation of learning. Her research career has focused on feminist literary studies and critical archival studies. Her publications include Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page (2019) and New Feminist Research Ethics (2023).
The Library of the Future
Fiona Salisbury has been Executive Director of Library Services at Western Sydney University since 2022. Fiona joined Western from La Trobe University, where she served as Executive Director and University Librarian. She has a career track record of success that has spanned library learning, research, literacy, and engagement portfolios. Fiona has a deep, scholarly understanding of the role of the university library in the future of higher education and is highly regarded as having expertise in open textbook publishing. Fiona has been a Director on the Board of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) since 2020. She is currently Deputy Chair of CAUL and the Program Director for the CAUL Open Educational Resources Program. This program includes the CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective, an open textbook publishing initiative involving 42 universities and has published 35 open textbooks since 2022.
Dr Olivia Inwood (she/her) | Academic Literacy Coordinator
Library Academic & Research Services
Kingswood Campus located on Darug Country
Email: o.inwood@westernsydney.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-888X
westernsydney.edu.au
