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Accessibility Strategies in STEM-focused courses
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Supporting student use of Generative AI in Higher Education
Join our 2-day series to empower higher ed learning designers with generative AI know-how. Day 1: Explore AI tools, ethics, and prompt crafting. Day 2: Craft AI integration plans for your local context. Enhance student support and navigate AI’s educational impact.
A Case Study of the Online Learning Fellows: Unique Benefits of a One-Year Apprenticeship Initiative for Emerging Instructional Designers and Online Learning Programs
The Online Learning Fellows, a one-year apprenticeship at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, provides recent graduates with experience while enhancing online learning.
Equity-Conscious Leadership
Leadership practice is a developmental growth process, grounded in knowledge from multiple disciplines and coupled with reflective practice. Equity-minded leadership develops in the intersections of personal identity, perceived attitudes, theory, and concerted action for social justice. Leadership engages us to build culture and inclusive practices within the complex, shifting landscape of our organizations and teams. Participants will examine the evidence-based principles of equity-conscious leadership practice, examine models for use, and engage a real-life problem of practice they’ve encountered to apply the principles and models.
Building Equity Syllabi
The syllabus is a strategic tool to reflect equity commitments, define standards, close gaps, and cultivate a sense of belonging.
Participants will bring a syllabus to the session and walk away with a toolkit of strength-based language for marginalized, underrepresented, and first-generation learners. Concrete suggestions will include policies and practices, inclusion of statements that presuppose success, and a reconceptualization of syllabi as instruments of change within higher education. By embracing equity-mindedness, dismantling hegemonic norms, and reinforcing diverse identities in their syllabi, faculty can contribute to the creation of anti-racist and pro-social institutions that celebrate inclusivity.
In summary, the session calls for a comprehensive reconceptualization of syllabi as instruments of change within higher education. By embracing equity-mindedness, deconstructing dominant norms, and validating diverse identities, contributing to the creation of anti-racist and pro-celebratory institutions that advance both power equity and wellness.
Infusing Knowledge Management into a Learning Culture
Dr. Teague unveils the essence of Knowledge Management: preserving wisdom by organizing it for effortless sharing. In a world full of change, it's easy to lose valuable insights but when you apply these simple steps, you can seize the opportunity to immortalize, learn from, and share knowledge before it slips away.
Revitalizing Teaching and Learning through an Active Learning Classroom Implementation
Discover how Bridgewater State University implemented an Active Learning Classroom and corresponding Faculty Institute during the Summer and Fall of 2023. Our presentation will delve into the intricacies of the project, shedding light on its goals, timeline, the technologies and furniture components and the rationale behind their selection, the course scheduling process, training and support, anticipated and unforeseen challenges, feedback from faculty and student surveys, and the anticipated influence on classroom design at our institution.
Inferior Calculators or Superior Thinkers? Responding to AI and Other Innovations
Math instruction changed very little with the advent of powerful calculators. Writing instructors are currently adapting to the existence of large language model AI's. How, and what, should we teach students who will live in a world where computers read, write, and calculate better than they can?
Join us for a discussion of the role of higher education in preparing learners for the future.
Digital Well-Being
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From mobile phone usage to online courses, email, streaming services, work-related platforms, etc all of society, but particularly IT, Library, and teaching and learning professionals, as well as students need to understand the effects of too much screentime, as well be able to employ easy solutions to mitigate them.
MVP: Minimum Viable Practice with Supporting Faculty
A 2-day workshop where participants learn, share, and creative minimum viable practices to more effectively connect with faculty for longer-term professional development.