Diane Sieber is Faculty Director of the Generative Futures Lab for AI, an innovative experiential lab for faculty, staff and students to learn about generative AI and how to use AI effectively and ethically. She is a tenured faculty member in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and she primarily teaches in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society. Professor Sieber is a President's Teaching Scholar, was named a Carnegie Teaching Scholar and has received teaching and leadership awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the Boulder Faculty Assembly, the CU Alumni Association, the CU multi-campus Systems Office, and from multiple honor societies. Dr. Sieber's research areas include two eras of technology-driven communication revolution: Renaissance Europe immediately post printing press, and the current networked digital age. Her current project is a book on Renaissance education--specifically on the use of commonplace books--and our current technological access to interactive forms of such personal archives. She has published on Don Quixote, Spanish Golden Age drama, poetry and historiography, and cartographic works in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. She has also published on teaching and learning with emerging technologies in higher education. Recent work includes studies of learning through online social networks, the gamification of educational experience, and AI's impact on teaching, learning, knowledge management, and the future workforce. M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University. B.A. The University of Virginia.
Traditional technology assessment — whether bottom-up or top-down — rarely matches the speed of technology adoption in campus teaching and learning environments; the result is often an IT infrastructure out of sync with campus practices.
This ECAR research bulletin discusses the use of student-developed social contracts to support a vital online community of inquiry.
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