Join the Central and Southern Illinois Faculty Development Network at this week's event on collaborative learning practices and team-based active learning using small group work.  We will discuss the impact of student-centered learning, through collaboration and team-based active learning, on student success, retention, and completion.  In addition, we will address how this type of learning has resulted in greater academic success and more favorable attitudes towards learning.  During this session, we will share ideas about collaborative classrooms and teaching practices

Hear from an expert in the field of autism on what it is like to be an autistic student and how educators and students can find common ground in and out of the classroom.

Mr. Sweeting is a dynamic speaker, with over 10 years of experience working in education and health care, that challenges us to question how we approach teaching neurodivergent students using traditional classroom practice. He shares what it is like to be a college student with autism and how educators can make small changes that yield lasting success for students on the autism spectrum.

Learn how these open and free course materials support students and support faculty, as well as where to locate these high quality open resources and how to approach adopting an OER text and developing your own OER resources. Join the Library, COLRS, and UIS faculty in this informative session while celebrating Open Education Week (March 6-10th). 

Celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week (February 20–24) with this session highlighting the Fair Use provisions of the copyright law which is a key factor in making copyrighted materials available for use in the classroom.  What are the factors that help determine if your use is fair?  How does Creative Commons Licensing and copyright work together.

Presebter: Stephen McMinn, Director of Collections and Scholarly Communications, Brookens Library

Zoom link: https://uis.zoom.us/j/86464913933

This session will explore the creation of Anti-Racist rubrics for assessment of student work, offering an approach for putting Anti-Racist pedagogical theories into lived practice in our classroom by presenting a heuristic for creating Anti-Racist rubrics that builds on best practices established by scholars like Asao Inoue, as well as sharing examples and offering a space for discussion and collaboration. 

Presenter: Stephanie Hedge, Associate Professor, English and Modern Languages

Join Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, as he leads us on an exploration of how ChatGPT and similar AI could be used as a search engine in place of Google.

You can access the presentation materials https://sites.google.com/view/gpt-search/home

We were able to reschedule this event to be delivered on April 6.

We will consider the limitations of traditional grading methods, explore how alternative grading methods - including but not limited to ungrading – help address these limitations, and share ideas about the future of grading. Participants will be invited to share what grades mean to them and to consider the opportunities and challenges presented by alternative forms of assessment.

Join Stephanie Kratz, Coordinator of Faculty Academies, Heartland Community College through Zoom: https://go.uis.edu/CFEZoom

This week, we will be discussing the implications of using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can produce detailed responses to questions. Additionally, this session will help address questions around controlling and/or limiting those problems. Join us to learn or share in the conversation!

Join in through Zoom: https://uis.zoom.us/j/86464913933

Join us this week as Hei-Chi Chan (Mathematical Sciences, UIS) leads us in a discussion about how conversational artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT will impact other industries beyond education.

Join in the discussion through Zoom: https://uis.zoom.us/j/86464913933

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can produce detailed responses to questions. This week's discussion will focus on the use of ChatGPT in the classroom.

Join us by Zoom: https://uis.zoom.us/j/86464913933