AACSB Online Learning Affinity Group Third Thursday webinar: What is the role of AI in the classroom?

Session Description:

What is the role of AI in the classroom?  Come join University of Iowa faculty Emily Campion and Jon Garfinkel, as well as Birmingham City Associate Dean and faculty member Lucian Tipi, as they discuss various perspectives. How AI can be - and is - used by students for their classes, as well as overall guiding principles on its appropriateness. Professor Campion’s focus is on undergraduates’ use of AI in her management courses. Professor Garfinkel will focus on students’ potential use of AI in online exams (as well as other assessed work), the increasing ability of AI to get the right “finance problem” answer, and where it fails – particularly according to employers seeking to hire finance grads. Associate Dean Tipi presents his institution’s guiding principles and approach to students’ use of AI in their work. We hope you can join us.

Bios:

Emily D. Campion, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses largely on staffing procedures, how to leverage machine learning and natural language processing to improve these systems, and ways to mitigate employment discrimination. Her work has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. Emily is currently serving as an editorial board member for Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology, and she recently co-edited a special issue on machine learning in selection for Personnel Psychology. Prior to academia, she was a daily reporter in Indiana and an AmeriCorps member in Washington, D. C. She earned her B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and her Ph.D. in Organization and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Jon Garfinkel is a Professor of Finance and Henry B. Tippie Research Professor at the University of Iowa.  He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Florida in 1994.  Dr. Garfinkel has published in several leading journals including The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.  He is currently an Associate Editor at both The Journal of Corporate Finance and at Financial Management. He was the program chair for the Midwest Finance Association’s annual meeting in 2017 (in Chicago) and also served as President and Chair of the Board of the association. Professor Garfinkel is a proponent of the FLIP teaching technique and has won numerous teaching awards using it.  He has served the Tippie College of Business as Chair of the Online Education Committee and as a member of both the collegiate P&T committee and Dean’s Advisory Council. He served the University of Iowa as co-chair of the Funded Retirement and Insurance Committee (FRIC) and was a member of the UI’s Retirement Fund Investment Committee (RFIC), which holds fiduciary duties regarding the menu of investment options in the University’s retirement plans. He is a member of the steering committee for AACSB’s Online Learning Affinity Group.

Lucian Tipi is Associate Dean and faculty member and involves leading the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences Teaching and Student Experience Strategy at Birmingham City University. He is responsible for delivering high-quality education to their students. He brings to his institution a wealth of experience from a 20-year career in Higher Education (HE). Before working in HE, he built a career in a variety of industries including the armed forces, steel and IT consultancy. His research interests are education, information systems in business and project management. He is active in AACSB, particularly through the Online Affinity Group (where he is the current Vice Chair) and the Graduate Business Education Affinity Group.