Meetings

2024

Meeting Date Topics Discussed
January 18, 2024
  • Discussion around teaching and learning guidelines, including recent changes following committee discussion.
  • Discussion around related GenAI topics, including AI detectors and the use of GenAI for formative and summative assessment.
  • Presentation of draft consultation plan and further consultation ideas.
February 15, 2024
  • Discussion around the use of AI detectors at UBC and language in the guidelines around these.
  • Discussion of guidelines and specific scenarios including:
    • Fully understanding when a tool contains AI or not as more and more tools contain AI;
    • The impacts of GenAI tools on critical thinking.
  • Discussion around the use of GenAI for grading.
  • Discussion of ways to promote and communicate the guidelines once they are released through outreach and events.
March 25, 2024
  • Updates on the Generative AI Steering Committee and the start of the Graduate Education subcommittee.
  • Discussion around the feedback from recent, ongoing and upcoming consultations.
  • Discussion around update to be presented at the Board of Governors Learning & Research Committee in June.
April 29, 2024
  • Updates on the Generative AI Steering Committee and release of Principles for using Gen AI at UBC.
  • Review of recent changes to the draft Guidelines from the Committee’s feedback and broad consultation.
  • Update on upcoming panel for Celebrate Learning Week (which was later postponed to the CTLT Spring Institute event, on June 4th, 2024).
  • Plan for the guidelines’ release.
May 29, 2024
  • Updates from the Generative AI Steering Committee and the Graduate Education subcommittee.
  • Report back from consultations and discussion around recent consultation, feedback and revisions, including the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee (ISPEAC), the Learning & Research and the Teaching & Learning Senate Committees.
  • Discussion around the use of AI detectors, included in the Academic Integrity section.
  • Discussion on addressing the status of the guidelines document on the preamble.
  • Communications’ plans and release of the guidelines to the UBC community soon.

2023

Meeting Date Topics Discussed
October 20, 2023
  • Roundtable on opportunities and challenges for generative Al tools in the teaching and learning space
  • Discussion of Terms of reference, co-chair roles and parallel student and faculty working groups during the monthly meetings.
  • Overview and discussion of guidelines and resources in place or in progress at UBC as context and for situating the work of this group
  • Discussion of approach to working on teaching and learning guidelines in this group
November 16, 2023
  • Discussion of the revised draft Terms of Reference
  • Brainstorming work, in 2 groups, to discuss the guidelines framework
    and contributions
  • Discussion around communications and awareness of the Committee and its work
December 13, 2023
  • Discussion of revised Terms of reference and finalization.
  • Overview of approach to draft principles and guidelines and presentation of draft.
  • Committee discussion and review of the draft principles and guidelines in four thematic breakout rooms: Indigenous considerations, ethical considerations, teaching with GenAI, learning with GenAI. Members were invited to select a room and circulate between rooms if desired.