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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:03 - 11:22 at Meeting Rooms 315-316 - Instructional Technologies #1

The Artificial Intelligence Smart Classroom Initiative (ASCI) presents a re-imagined set of online course tools, designed primarily to support growing computer science classes. The system has four primary tools: an office hours queue, an automatic student grouping algorithm, a course-specific local large-language model (LLM), and administration tools for detecting students and TAs that need support. These tools interoperate to improve the quality of one another (e.g., LLM conversations support students directly in the office hours queue) and are enhanced by synchronizing data from multiple external sources such as Piazza, Gradescope, and Canvas. The system has been deployed in multiple courses over the past three semesters: initially as a FIFO queue, then supporting manual grouping and smart grouping of office hour attendees, and recently including LLM support. Preliminary results indicate that students who were grouped using the tool were more likely to return to the queue more than twice as often (on average) than those who were not. However, while grouping in office hours has the potential to decrease student wait times, teaching assistants and students tend to favor one-on-one meetings over group meetings. This might be improved in the future with updates to the software, TA training, and incorporation of other supporting tools (e.g., LLM technology). The other, newer, tools will be more thoroughly evaluated in future semesters.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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10:45 - 12:00
Instructional Technologies #1Papers at Meeting Rooms 315-316
10:45
18m
Talk
Analyzing Pedagogical Quality and Efficiency of LLM Responses with TA Feedback to Live Student Questions
Papers
Mihran Miroyan UC Berkeley, Chancharik Mitra University of California, Berkeley, Rishi Jain UC Berkeley, Gireeja Ranade University of California, Berkeley, Narges Norouzi University of California, Berkeley
11:03
18m
Talk
ASCI: AI-Smart Classroom Initiative
Papers
Nada Basit University of Virginia, Mark Floryan University of Virginia, John R. Hott University of Virginia, Allen Huo University of Virginia, Jackson Le University of Virginia, Ivan Zheng University of Virginia
11:22
18m
Talk
Can a Free Tool in an Ebook Platform, Searchable Question Bank, and Summer Workshop Help Instructors Adopt Peer Instruction?
Papers
Barbara Ericson University of Michigan, Xingjian Gu University of Michigan, Zihan Wu University of Michigan, Shefali Patel University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Aadarsh Padiyath University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
11:41
18m
Talk
What Can Computer Science Educators Learn From the Failures of Top-Down Pedagogy?Global
Papers
Sverrir Thorgeirsson ETH Zurich, Tracy Ewen ETH Zurich, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich