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Past Events from March 6 – April 28 – Institute for Teaching, Innovation, & Inclusive Pedagogy Past Events from March 6 – April 28 – Institute for Teaching, Innovation, & Inclusive Pedagogy

Assessment: Why and How to Use Gradescope

Zoom

Facilitators:   Karen Harris, Senior Instructional Designer  Hanna Kim, Senior Instructional Designer  Kevin Burkitt, Instructional Technologist  This workshop is an introduction to Gradescope, a grading tool that integrates in Canvas and can help you grade exams and assignments more efficiently and with more consistency across students and graders. It supports rubrics, facilitates feedback, and generates statistics, all within any course modality.  … Read More

Innovative Practices for Large Courses: A Community – Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement

Zoom

This gathering is an opportunity for guidelines and individual help with a teaching philosophy statement, often a critical piece of a promotion packet. New to this community? Email TIIP at TeachingInstitute@rutgers.edu to join the community and receive more details.  Audience: Administrative staff, lecturers, teaching faculty (NTT), tenure-line faculty   

Teaching and GenAI Explorations: Research

Zoom

Generative AI tools are increasingly acting as “research assistants,” helping students brainstorm topics, locate sources, summarize complex texts, and plan projects. In this one-hour virtual session, we’ll explore several AI research assistants (e.g., Consensus) and examine what they do well (and where they fall short). You will test a few tools hands-on and discuss how … Read More

Generative AI Community of Practice (GenAI CoP)

Zoom

Interested in connecting with colleagues across Rutgers to think more deeply about generative AI in teaching and learning? Join our new Generative AI Community of Practice (GenAI CoP). We hope this to be a supportive, interdisciplinary space for shared learning, discussion, and collaboration. This virtual community is designed for ongoing conversation rather than one-off workshops. Select sessions may be … Read More

Supporting Neurodivergent Learners in the Classroom

Zoom

Join us for a 1-hour virtual workshop on supporting neurodivergent students in higher education. We’ll explore evidence-based strategies, grounded in Universal Design for Learning, for building more inclusive, flexible learning environments. Drawing on practical guides (including the work of Karen Costa and Jennifer Pusateri), you’ll reflect on how to leverage students’ assets rather than deficits … Read More

Prompting Cookbook

Zoom

In this hands-on workshop you will explore prompt engineering as a key ingredient as you think about course design, while considering alignment between course objectives, module-level objectives to design of assignments and assessments. Work alongside us as we use prompting to assist in course design preparation (by creating course goals, defining module-level learning objectives, draft … Read More

Teaching & Learning Community for Graduate Students and Postdocs – April Gathering

Zoom

The Teaching & Learning Community for Graduate Students and Postdocs is a monthly Zoom-based gathering space where graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff engage in conversations about teaching and learning in higher education. Each session is shaped by community members and offers opportunities to discuss pedagogy based on the scholarship of teaching and learning.   Audience: Administrative … Read More

Anchoring Higher Education Conference

Rutgers University, Newark

Rooted in Relationships: Cultivating Learning through Human Connection  The keynote address will be delivered by Peter Felten, an expert on student engagement and co-author of the books "Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College" and “Connections Are Everything: A College Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education”. REGISTER

Teaching and GenAI Explorations: Chatbots

Zoom

*New Date/Time: Friday, April 24th (9 - 10 am) What if classroom chatbots could help your students think more deeply, not just answer questions faster? In this one-hour virtual session, we’ll explore a range of educational chatbots, including tools like BoodleBox and PlayLab, and examine how they can support inquiry, metacognition, and active learning. You … Read More

Generative AI Community of Practice (GenAI CoP)

Zoom

Interested in connecting with colleagues across Rutgers to think more deeply about generative AI in teaching and learning? Join our new Generative AI Community of Practice (GenAI CoP). We hope this to be a supportive, interdisciplinary space for shared learning, discussion, and collaboration. This virtual community is designed for ongoing conversation rather than one-off workshops. Select sessions may be … Read More