Center for Learning and Teaching Workshops - Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
- Academics
- Center for Learning and Teaching
- Educational Development and Teaching Enhancement
- Faculty Workshops
- Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
Fall 2024 Workshops
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Making Wise Decisions About AI Guidelines in Your Course
This session offered a framework to support faculty members in making decisions about their own AI permissiveness, building on their own teaching philosophies, learning outcomes and potential for student learning.
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Getting Started with AI: A Hands-on Session
This session was for faculty who are beginning to explore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini and want to learn how to use them and the implications of their existence on student learning.
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Critical AI Literacy
We will explore models for critical AI literacy. Participants will be able to share their own experiences with AI and the opportunities and challenges of using it in courses.
Spring 2025 Workshops
Active Learning Workshops
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Active Learning - Session 1: Getting Started
This workshop aims to help participants get comfortable with and implement active learning approaches, including the use of relevant classroom technologies.
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Active Learning - Session 2: Instructional Strategies
Through hands-on activities and discussions, participants will explore various active learning strategies to enhance student engagement and leverage classroom technology.
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Active Learning - Session 3: Build Your Own Activity
This session targets both novice participants who are teaching in the active learning (AL) classroom for the first time, as well as the more experienced AL classroom users.
AI Workshops
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Artificial Intelligence - Session 1: Making Wise Decisions About AI Guidelines in Your Course
Decisions to integrate technology into our teaching require reflection and often a degree of experimentation in order to make wise decisions that benefit learners and promote an engaging learning environment.
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Artificial Intelligence - Session 2: AI Policies and AI-resilient Assessment
This workshop will engage participants around exploring AI policies from several institutions and examining how we can best communicate with faculty and students around AI usage in teaching and learning.
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Artificial Intelligence - Session 3: AI-Powered Teaching
This hands-on workshop, facilitated by Moataz ElHelaly (ACCT), will show university professors how to use AI tools to simplify content creation and enhance student engagement.
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Artificial Intelligence - Session 4: When Might You Use AI Tools for Research?
In this session, we will share some approaches to using a variety of AI tools to assist in the research process, while keeping a critical perspective on the possible risks and harms of using such tools.
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AI Community Circle Conversation: Challenges and Opportunities
In this community circle conversation, we will review the state of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and share some of the latest guidelines for ethical use at AUC, as well as some of the opportunities, challenges and limitations.
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Artificial Intelligence - Session 5: Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
In this session, we will have a discussion about the role of instructors in dealing with academic integrity violations at AUC. We will review the reporting process and share some ideas on how to promote academic integrity.
Experiential Learning
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Experiential Learning: Half Day Institute Part 1
In this workshop, faculty will be introduced to different teaching strategies that foster student engagement, with a focus on experiential learning.
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Experiential Learning - Half Day Institute Part 2
This workshop is part two of the experiential learning institute. In this workshop participants will share the challenges they face while implementing experiential learning.
Stand Alone Workshops
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Getting Started with Canvas
In this foundational workshop, you will explore the Canvas interface and design to build a better learning experience for your students. You will also get a chance to explore the variety of teacher-friendly tools with ready-to-use course templates.
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Teaching at AUC - Part 1
This certificate is offered to all AUC faculty and is required of all adjunct faculty and new full-time faculty members.
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Feedback for Learning: Enhancing Student Learning and Growth Through Constructive Feedback
This workshop aims to explore the role of constructive feedback and its impact on student learning and growth.
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Teaching at AUC - Part 2
This certificate is offered to all AUC faculty and is required of all adjunct faculty and new full-time faculty members.