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, Bluesky, X, 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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Apply for Certificate in Open Educational Practices Program

Exciting opportunity for faculty in Open Education Practices

The Open Education Network is accepting applications for faculty and librarian partners to receive a certification for open educational practices (OEP). Applicants should be higher education...

Posted: June 7, 2022, 11:08 AM

Celebrate Open Education Week: March 7-11, 2022

Discover the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide

Join the Maryland Open Source Textbook initiative to celebrate Open Education Week 2022!  Check out the events and webinars happening locally at Montgomery College and all the activities...

Posted: March 7, 2022, 1:11 PM

Apply for 2022 Lumen Circles OER Fellowship

Join other USM faculty for OER training and support

The Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative (M.O.S.T.) invites faculty from two-year and four-year colleges and universities to apply for a Spring 2022 Lumen Circles Fellowship focused on...

Posted: January 6, 2022, 9:13 AM

Registration Open for 2021 M.O.S.T. State Summit

Open Educational Resources for Advancing Equity & Inclusion

Registration is now open for the 2021 M.O.S.T. State Summit, which will take place virtually April 8-9, 2021. The theme of the 2021 conference is Using OER to Advance Equity and Inclusion. The...

Posted: February 11, 2021, 12:08 PM

GO Chat Recap: The Year of Open Ed - UMBC Alum Leads the Way

Here's what you missed from our Go Online Chat!

Last month, we kicked off our GO Chat series for 2021 with a dive into all-things-open, as in Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Pedagogy, and Open Science.  We started with a brief...

Posted: February 10, 2021, 4:47 PM