Past Events

Emma Lanners, Scott Allen, and Rob Gray went over OER and different ways to create AI tutors.

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CTL Faculty Support Fellow Emily FitzGerald will host a conversation about how to consider students’ whole selves in course design, class discussions, assignments, and assessments using embodied methodologies. This approach enables the kind of teaching and learning that encourages exploration, experimentation, and application outside of the classroom, in turn fostering critical thinking, metacognition, and empathy.

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This informative sessions gave faculty lots of ideas about how to implement (or prevent) AI in a short amount of time. Faculty from various disciplines shared with us their favorite AI assignment in quick presentations.

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Cerasela Ceapa, Visiting Instructor of the Practice in Computer Science (University Politehnica of Bucharest), presented about some of the fundamentals of AI in the classroom.

 

AI isn’t here to replace professors, it’s here to make teaching smarter, faster, and more creative! In this interactive workshop, you will discover how AI can become your teaching assistant: generating quizzes, summarizing research, designing lessons plans, and even offering alternative explanations for your students. We’ll cover the basics of ” prompt engineering ” explore real tools you can use right away and tackle the big questions of ethics and academic integrity.

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This session presented by Christie Pondell highlighted a simple, student-centered approach to introducing career-ready objectives in a General Education Oceanography course. Early in the semester, students co-created objectives and rubrics through group reflection and peer evaluation, identifying collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and time management as key skills for success. This case study shows how small adjustments—rather than a full course redesign—can foster student ownership, increase engagement, and naturally connect classroom learning to career readiness.

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Brianna Iverson, Career Coach for the College of Education, and Alex Cromwell, Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences department, have been collaborating over the past year to integrate Life Design tools and reflective practices directly into Alex’s courses. The focus of the session was on introducing faculty to these tools, giving concrete examples of how they were used (including feedback from students on their effectiveness), and providing participants with opportunities to think through how to integrate these tools into their own classes.

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2:00 pm-3:00 pm

This 50-minute interactive workshop introduced faculty to the world of AI agents—autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act to accomplish academic and administrative goals. Participants will learn how these agents are built, how they work behind the scenes, and how they can become powerful collaborators in teaching, research, and course management.

Cerasela Ceapa, Visiting Instructor of the Practice in Computer Science (University Politehnica of Bucharest), presented about some of the fundamentals of AI agents

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