Fw: First Joint Reading Meeting for Student Modeling and Personalization in Computer Science and SPLICE LLM Reading Groups

[Shaffer, Cliff]

Hello, and welcome to a new semester! We typically run a Digital Education reading group. Perhaps someone will organize one for us this semester. In the meantime, this looks like a good opportunity to keep up with some relevant research. Note that a lot of the people on the invite list are people that our research group (broadly speaking) collaborates with a lot – people at NCSU, CMU, UPitt, in particular. So they are good faces to put with names that you might hear about.

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Dr. Cliff Shaffer                                               

Professor
Department of Computer Science              Phone: (540) 231-4354
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061          WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer

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Dear All,

I hope you have all had a great summer. 

We will have our first reading meeting for the Student Modelling and Personalization in Computer Science Group in the 24-25 academic year and our first reading meeting for the Splice LLM working group jointly held this Friday, August 30th, at 10:00 am EST through this Zoom link. Please find the title and abstract of this week's presentation given by Dr. Jaromir Savelka from Carnegie Mellon University below.

Title: Overview of Computing Education Research With Large Language Models

Description: The talk focuses on the impact and implications of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT on programming education. It explores how LLMs can revolutionize teaching and learning by interpreting and generating both natural language and code, offering personalized support, and automating the creation of educational materials. However, it also highlights challenges, such as the risk of incorrect outputs, over-reliance by students, and the potential for reinforcing existing biases. The presentation outlines ongoing research on the capabilities of LLMs in education, their impact on learning outcomes, and future challenges, including designing introductory programming courses that effectively incorporate LLMs while mitigating their drawbacks.

I am looking forward to meeting you at the meeting.

Best,

Bita 

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Bita Akram, PhD
Assistant Professor 

AI-Assisted Learning Lab

Department of Computer Science

North Carolina State University

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[Lekshmi Narayanan, Arun Balajiee]

Could we also merge the digital education reading group meetings with these the student modeling reading meetings for one or 2 meetings? I think the former has more attendance while the latter the attendance numbers vary. This could address Dr. Shaffer's concern of needing an organizer.

Regards,  
Arun Balajiee (he/him/his)  

PhD Student,

PAWSLAB, Intelligent Systems Program,

MS'20 Computer Science,

University of Pittsburgh

Website, Twitter

(M-F 8 am - 3.30 am. Sat,Sun: no response)

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