AI Initiatives

The DoIT AI site is here to help the community with information on using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), to support UMBC’s Administrative, Instructional, and Research efforts. This site is designed to support employees looking to advance their use of GenAI. We recommend that our UMBC community start by visiting GenAI Tools, this page will highlight what free resources are available to use and what options exist to safely use GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data.

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save people time and hopefully improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support and we are seeking partners to work with DoIT on expanding myUMBC Answers. The real key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is to be able to provide validated and accurate content, such as FAQs or a handbook produced annually.

For faculty, we encourage you to also explore instructional AI and research AI. A wonderful resource in the College of Engineering Center for AI.  You can follow news about the UMBC Center for AI on social media through its sites on LinkedIn, BlueskyX, and Facebook.Members of the UMBC community can subscribe to the UMBC AI Group to receive email about AI-related news and events.  If you have news to share with the UMBC AI community or suggestions or comments on the site, please send them to umbc-ai@cs.umbc.edu.

 

AI News

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OER Workshop Series 2022 from USM M.O.S.T.

Check out the line up of OER workshop offerings in 2022!

See below for registration links and details about OER workshop offerings: M.O.S.T. OER Workshop Series  We are excited to offer you again this year the opportunity to register for an upcoming...

Posted: December 15, 2021, 9:47 AM

How to Get Started with Open Educational Resources

Introductory workshop sponsored by the AOK Library

The AOK Library will offer an introductory workshop on Open Educational Resources: With the rising cost of textbooks, the use of open educational resources (OER) can significantly increase...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 10:24 AM

Quality Matters Training Opportunities

In person or fully online via our sister USM institutions

Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer review process designed to improve online and blended course quality to benefit online learners. The Applying the Quality...

Posted: September 20, 2019, 1:14 PM

Beat the Next Snow Day with the Skill Builder Boot Camp

Everything you need to know about Blackboard in 2 days!

Concerned about Mother Nature's icy influence this winter? New to UMBC or teaching with Blackboard? Need to refresh your skills? Interested in an existing technology or resource? The Skill...

Posted: December 1, 2016, 1:05 PM