Public Speaking Support for Students Through an AI Agent

As AI continues to evolve, building agents to embed within college-level courses is becoming more common and allows faculty to supplement instruction in innovative ways. This session explores how to create, refine, and embed an AI agent into an introductory speech course. While specifically focused on supporting students in public speaking courses, the information from this session can be revised to fit a variety of subjects or content areas. The presenter will discuss the initial creation of the agent within ChatGPT, the importance of reviewing and refining the outputs, and how to integrate AI in effective ways without replacing a student’s own intellectual thoughts or ideas. 

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Be able to identify the steps to creating an AI agent for college-level courses.
• Be able to practice reviewing and refining the capabilities and outputs of an AI agent.
• Have tools to successfully integrate an AI agent into their speech courses or other content areas.

Note: Webinars are only available to individuals at NISOD member colleges.

Learners will have the option to earn a certificate of attendance or a certificate with Continuing Education Units (CEU) upon completion of the webinar. To earn a certificate with CEUs, the learner must successfully pass the learning assessment with a score of 80% or higher. All learners must complete the post-event evaluation to earn credentials. 

The duration of this webinar is one hour, which is equal to 0.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).