Teaching & Learning (2024-25)

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.

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.

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.