About Us

This workshop, funded by NSF’s Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technology program, is jointly hosted by Michigan State University’s:

Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation

MSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) collaborates with and empowers all MSU educators in their pursuit of engaging and equitable teaching and learning practices. CTLI engages educators and students in co-creating learning experiences through a dialogue and inquiry process to address individual needs and explore complex learning challenges.

Jeremy Van Hof is the Teaching Center Director within CTLI. As a leader of academic developers, and with years of experience leading genAI workshops for instructors, his expertise will oversee the pedagogy and facilitation of the workshops.

Evidence-Driven Learning Innovation

The Evidence Driven Learning Innovation (EDLI) research center is a collaboration of educators and researchers across multiple units at MSU. Our mission is to humanize the digital learning experience and use a values-driven approach to develop and evaluate digital pedagogies and technologies for 21st-century learning. EDLI engages in applied work, conducting Research, Evaluation, and Implementation guidance for educational technology and tech-infused pedagogy.

Dr. Caitlin Kirby is EDLI’s Associate Director of Research and Interim Co-Director. Dr. Hala Sun is EDLI’s Associate Director of Assessment and Evaluation. Drs. Kirby and Sun have both been actively researching and advising instructors on the implementation of genAI in the classroom since 2021, and guided the workshop content and facilitation.

Ethics Institute

The MSU Ethics Institute advances innovative research and thought leadership in ethical theory. The institute coordinates university-wide educational and research initiatives to amplify the strengths of existing applied ethics centers and foster the growth of new centers on campus, such as the recently-hosted Ethics Week 2025. The Institute works toput ethics at the heart of the MSU experience, from research and outreach to teaching and learning.

Dr. Bree Holtz is the Director of the Ethics Institute and an associate professor in Advertising & Public Relations. Dr. Holtz and the Ethics Institute have worked to advance our understanding of AI in communications, and Dr. Holtz helped manage the workshop content and facilitation.

AI and Ethics Expert Speakers

Four speakers joined us to share their expertise in ethics and generative AI content knowledge.

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Kirk Hanson is a senior fellow of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and former executive director of the Center. He focuses on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations and their leaders. Dr. Hanson’s session focused on general ethics, its importance in education and beyond, and how to implement ethics into learning and teaching. His session includes an exercise in which participants will identify unavoidable ethical dilemmas in their own areas of teaching and learning.

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Brenna Clarke Gray is the Educational Technologies Coordinator at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. Her focus is on the ethical, accessible, and care-informed use of digital tools in education. Her session explored how to make decisions about risk assessment and harm reduction when choosing whether Generative AI is useful or necessary for pedagogical purposes.

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Chris Gilliard, PhD, is the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute. He is a writer, professor, and speaker whose scholarship examines digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He was recently a JustTech Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Dr. Gilliard is a member of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Scholars Council and Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board. His book Luxury Surveillance is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2025.

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Jeremy Van Hof is the Teaching Center Director within MSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation. As a leader of academic developers, and with years of experience leading genAI workshops for instructors, he shared a session on academic integrity, syllabus policies, and instructor transparency.

AI Bias Panel from Michigan State University

  • Dr. Anjana Susarla, Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI, Eli Broad College of Business
  • Dr. Danielle DeVoss, Interim Chairperson; William J. Beal Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, College of Arts and Letters
  • Dr. Mohammad Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Hala Sun, Associate Director of Assessment & Evaluation, EDLI, College of Natural Science / Eli Broad College of Business