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Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Days, Fall 2024
On August 14th and 15th, join colleagues from the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses to energize for the upcoming semester.
Optimizing Online Teaching: Strategies and Insights
This session will be focused on online teaching. The faculty presenters will share the teaching strategies they recommend for successfully teaching online. They will also recommend professional develo...
AI-Powered Tools in Education: Creating Course Content and Empowering Students
Discover how faculty can leverage AI-powered tools and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to create engaging, effective course content and provide students with the knowledge and skills to harness the...
Teaching Shapes: What, Why, and How to Start One on Your Campus
Instructors are often isolated and left to meet the challenges of teaching alone. Teaching Shapes is a peer-to-peer, formative teaching observation program that encourages community building, idea sha...
Welcome & Opening Panel Discussion – Instructor Days, Fall 2023
Join us for the plenary session in which 2 of the recipients will discuss their use of effective, active, and engaging pedagogy, their passion for teaching and students’ learning, and their approaches...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Days, Fall 2023 (Day 2)
On August 9th and 10th, join colleagues from the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses to energize for the upcoming semester.
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Days, Fall 2023
On August 9th and 10th, join colleagues from the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses to energize for the upcoming semester.
Virtual Reality in a Shared Course: Lunch & Learn
Join us to hear about virtual reality in a shared DLC course taught by Bill Cantor, Assistant Teaching Professor in Information Sciences and Technology. This spring Bill used Meta Quest 2 headsets wit...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day Spring 2023
Join us for a half-day, virtual event focusing on strategies for teaching the whole student. This event will feature an instructor panel and a student panel, followed by an open discussion. Topics of...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day, Spring 2023
Join us from 9am to 1pm on January 4th for a half-day, virtual event focusing on strategies for teaching the whole student. This event will feature an instructor panel and a student panel, followed by...
Succeeding as an Adjunct Faculty Member
Adjunct faculty bring tremendous dedication and innovation to their teaching but they rarely receive the support and encouragement that their work deserves. In this session, experienced adjunct facult...
Open and Affordable Teaching and Collaboration – Two Examples
This session will present two faculty approaches to working with open and affordable educational materials. Half of the session will focus on potential sources of OER materials for Math and Statistics...
Making the Business Classroom More “Profitable”
This trio will share a combination of using computer simulations to accommodate specific business course instruction, student application of classroom discussions to real-world scenarios, and the use...
Make Discussions Great Again: We Actually Mean It
Nurturing professional outcomes in asynchronous online discussions.
Lessons Learned from Small Teaching
In his book Small Teaching, James Lang explains how minor modifications to our teaching can have a major impact on student learning. In this session, faculty discuss the ways they have incorporated th...
Faculty Forum: Designing Online Discussions to Promote Engagement
In this Faculty Forum hosted by the Center for Teaching and eLearning Initiatives at Penn State Behrend, faculty will share their experiences in designing and facilitating engaging discussions in both...
Facilitating Effective Group Work
Group projects are very useful assignments but are hated equally by both students and instructors when things don’t go as expected. This session will provide strategies for effectively setting up and...
Creative Course Design: Examples of Transformative and Experiential Learning in the Classroom
This session explores three distinct ways faculty infused experiential learning into their classrooms. We will explore topics such as telecollaboration, enthusiastic engagement, getting students to pa...
Creating Community in Your Courses
Getting students to engage in class can be difficult but establishing a positive classroom community can go a long way to help with that. In this session, you’ll hear about a few strategies that have...
Continuing the Conversation: Faculty Communities
Educators have shared a number of strategies and techniques during this event for enhancing the practice of teaching. In this session, Dr. Laura Cruz of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence...