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Other members of the task force include Gabrielle Bray, a fourth-year student who chairs the Honor Committee; T. Kenny Fountain, an associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Briana Morrison, an associate professor of computer science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Reza Mousavi, an assistant professor of commerce in the McIntire School of Commerce; and Michael Palmer, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

The task force will hold a series of virtual town hall meetings, organized by school. Faculty and students may attend any session. Participants may register for each session on the task force website. Each session is limited to 300 participants. If there is enough demand, more sessions may be added.

The scheduled sessions are: Arts & Sciences (natural sciences), March 27, 3 to 4:30 p.m.; Architecture, Batten, Education and Human Development, and Nursing, March 29, noon to 1:30 p.m.; Engineering and Applied Sciences and Data Science, April 10, 3 to 4:30 p.m.; Arts & Sciences (social sciences), April 11, 12:30 to 2 p.m.; Arts & Sciences (arts and humanities) and Professional and Continuing Education, April 12, noon to 1:30 p.m.; and Darden, Law and McIntire, April 14, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

The link to its questionnaire is available on the task force website.

Both faculty and students are invited to these online town halls, Heny said. We will provide some information and then ask them critical questions that get them to engage, and they will record their responses in a form we will use as a source of data.

We want to learn how students and faculty are actually using this technology in courses, Pennock said. We hear anecdotal evidence from the faculty members who are closest to us, but we really want to understand how our students using it to study as well as to complete assignments. Theres a real opportunity for faculty to make their classes better, to be able to get more work done in the same amount of time.

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