Monday August 12

Janet Wood Varner, Lecturer in Educational Studies and the 2024 recipient of the Jordan Exemplar Teaching Award, will share examples, processes, and reflections on designing and building on a range of engaged learning opportunities in your courses.  Come for new ideas, conversation, or a little time to plan/refine this part of your course!

Extending on themes and frameworks shared at the COPLAC Summit SMCM hosted in June, VPAA Katie Gantz will facilitate conversation and reflection about AI in the Liberal Arts classroom--its potential and possibilities--and not simply as something we need to be thinking about through the lens of how to check if students are cheating.

This is a quick workshopping session opportunity for reflection/review (solo or in small groups) of the morning's conversations and examples.

In May 2024, new rules under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act were released regarding the requirements for digital accessibility for websites.  In an unexpected twist, the rule change removed the exemption that previously applied to digital course materials; by 2027, faculty will need to ensure that any digital course materials (like our Google sites, posts on Blackboard, PDFs we post, videos we use) comply with those rules.  Join Kelly O'Grady and Katy Arnett (Office of Accessibility Services) to learn about some quick/key areas you can start to change/address to start to comply with these regulations.