by Anabel Livengood | Jan 16, 2025 | Blog, Event, University Support
You’re Invited to Our Open House!
Join WCU’s teaching center on Wednesday, Feb 12, from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm for a relaxed and engaging Open House at the Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC)!
This is your opportunity to:
- Connect with colleagues from across campus.
- Meet our team and discover how we can support your work.
- Explore interactive stations featuring trivia and practical active learning ideas to take with you.
Refreshments will be provided. Drop by, say hello, and leave with inspiration for your teaching and connections to enrich your work.
You can find us on the first floor of Hunter Library.
We look forward to welcoming you!
by Anabel Livengood | Jan 15, 2025 | AI, Blog, Event
Join our Excellence in Teaching & Learning Event (ETLE) focused on AI this February!
Our Excellence in Teaching & Learning Event (ETLE) that was originally planned for October 2024 will now be held on Friday, February 28. We have partnered with the Hunter Library to bring in two external experts on AI as speakers, Tony Elkins and William Duffy.
Blue Ridge Conference Center (Blue Ridge 108A) from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Agenda
| 9:00 – 9:30 am |
Welcome |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am |
Tony Elkins
Ethics of AI
Students are invited to this session |
| 10:45 – 11:45 am |
Will Duffy
Inductive, Inclusive, Iterative: Developing AI Literacy in Practice |
| 12:30 – 1:45 pm |
AI Faculty Panel |
| 1:55 – 3:30 pm |
Workshop: Using AI in your teaching |
Tony Elkins, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, is a faculty member at Poynter. His portfolio includes Poynter’s early and mid-career leadership workshops Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders and the Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media. He is a founding member of the News Product Alliance and has an extensive product and project management background. He is one of Poynter’s generative AI experts, specializing in ethics, use cases and effects of visual AI models. Elkins is the co-author of Poynter’s AI Ethics Handbook. He will speak about the ethics of AI.
William Duffy is a Professor of English at the University of Memphis where he is Director of Graduate Studies and teaches in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication program. He will share insights from his current research on teaching with AI and will conduct a hands-on workshop where you can bring an assignment or assessment to modify.
by Eli Collins-Brown | Jan 7, 2022 | Be Present-Mindful, Blog, Classroom, Event, Faculty Development Workshop, Learn, Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning
Join us for our 2nd Annual Teaching & Learning Day. We will meet from 1 – 3:30 to discuss strategies faculty can use to prevent burnout in these demanding times. We will also discuss ways in which we can encourage and support our freshman and sophomores whose academic preparation was affected by the pandemic.
We have invited an expert on helping faculty prevent burnout through self-care to give the keynote address. Dr Julie Harrison-Swartz, DNP, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, is an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at UNC Pembroke.
In the second hour of the event, we will discuss supporting students to be successful. We had an unprecedented increase in failure rates last semester at WCU. But we are not alone in this as other institutions across the country are also experiencing this situation. We will discuss what’s happening and brainstorm some ways in which we as instructors can help these students succeed this semester.
Let us know you are going to attend REGISTRATION LINK
by Jonathan Wade | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog, Event, Faculty Development Workshop, Learn
Moving Rapidly to Remote Instruction (MRRI) will help you rapidly develop your face-to-face course for remote instruction for this fall’s semesters. If you are planning on teaching a fall course that needs to move online quickly, attend this three-week online workshop that will walk you through an intentional course design process and provide the expertise of the Coulter Faculty Commons who are experienced online faculty. This is not the full Online Course Design Institute, but will take you through the streamlined basics of creating an online course so that you can be prepared for the Fall of 2020.
Dates: July 10 – August 1, 2020
When: There will be a combination of live Zoom sessions, recorded tutorials, content and assignments/deliverables. You will have the opportunity to have 1:1 conversations with CFC staff and experience online faculty. Expect to commit 8 – 10 hours each of the three weeks to complete this process and be ready to teach.
Where: Fully Online through the LMS, Zoom, and Teams
Outcome: By the end of July, you will have your online course designed and developed, in the LMS, with a teaching/facilitation plan in place. You will also have the support of colleagues and the CFC throughout the summer.
The workshop is free and open to all instructors, including adjuncts. Please register, to let us know you are joining us and to allow us to ensure that we have enough facilitators to make this workshop successful!
by Terry Pollard | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Educational Development, Emergency Instruction Plan, Event, Feedback, Help Your Students, Online Learning, Other Resources, Pedagogy, Student Engagement, Teaching and Learning
Student needs are changing during this move to offering alternative modes of instruction. Faculty who want to find out what challenges students are facing can utilize a new web form created in Office365.
The form can be modified by faculty prior to sending out. The survey should take students 5 minutes to complete, and asks for the following types of information:
- whether students expect to have reliable Internet access
- times of day students expect to do online work
- preferences for asynchronous or synchronous activity
- accessibility requests (content in different formats, for example)
- basic psychological and physiological needs
The survey form is available below. Note the options for modifying the survey questions, collecting data, and sending out the link (the Settings icon can be found top-right of your screen, to the right of the Share button).
Open the Form
A heartfelt thank you to our colleague Dr. Mae Claxton, Professor of English, for reaching out to the CFC with this idea.
