This session shares next-level strategies for using ChatGPT and similar tools directly with students to support critical thinking, writing, and inquiry. This session will explore how to scaffold AI-integrated assignments, guide students in ethical and effective use, and assess student learning when generative tools are part of the process. Courtney Forte, Micki Kaleta, Elizabeth Braun, Natasha Harris.

In this interactive session, attendees explore strategies to reframe the shortened semester as an opportunity for intentional course design without necessarily doubling the pace or halving the quality. Through a lens of growth mindset and backward design, faculty leave with practical tools to maintain rigor, support students, and thrive in the 8-week environment. Natasha Harris, Elizabeth Braun.

Through targeted assignment redesign questions and other curated resources, you'll identify actionable guidelines, real-world examples, and additional strategies to effectively integrate AI without constant monitoring. Lisa Blue.

Humanities disciplines can provide crucial perspectives for AI literacy, helping students understand when, why, and in what situations AI might be utilized or avoided. Upon completion of the session, participants will be able to discuss the skills that the humanities help cultivate—critical thinking, awareness of contexts, facility with language—as well as strategies to pursue them in AI-aware classrooms.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

This aspirational and inspirational professional development session will focus on leveraging Strengths-Based and Appreciative Inquiry frameworks to enhance the effectiveness of feedback in the classroom and workplace. Participants will learn how to approach feedback conversations with a focus on positive reinforcement, recognizing individual strengths, and fostering a growth-oriented environment.

This workshop will focus on aligning assignments with your course and module outcomes, ensuring that you create as few assignments as are necessary to assess what you need to assess while not burdening students with what they see as 'busy work.' We’ll explore practical strategies for designing meaningful assessments.

Dr. Will Miller, led the fourth installment of the Central Hub's series Insight to Impact. Participants learned how to analyze student course performance, evaluate instructional changes, and develop data-informed instructional strategies.

This session is the third installment of the Central Hub's series Insight to Impact. This session, facilitated by Dr. Commie Richardson, explored how instructors can enhance their teaching skills through the data produced from observations.

This session is the second installment from the Central Hub's series Insight to Impact. Dr. Joseph Levy, consultant and Associate Vice Provost of Accreditation and Quality Improvement at Excelsior University, leads this webinar that explores how instructors can use course evaluations to make data-informed decisions.

Instructors have access to a wealth of data in their courses every semester. Join Dr. Sheena Serslev, Director of Institutional Assessment at George Mason University, for this webinar that explores how instructors can use data from the formative and summative assessments in their courses to make data-informed decisions.

Specification grading integrates several assessment and feedback methods to ensure that students demonstrate what they have learned in a course. Join Julie Dillon for a conversation about what specification grading is, what the benefits and challenges are, and how you can implement it in your course.

This interactive professional development workshop will explore best practices for providing constructive feedback on student writing. Whether you teach writing courses or integrate writing assignments into your subject area, this session offers valuable insights and techniques to help your students improve their writing skills.

Led by Dr. Kristin Redfield this session covered ways to make sure that course assignments are in alignment with course outcomes. The focus was on making sure that students are given as few assignments as are necessary to assess what needs to be assessed while not being burdened with what they see as “busy work.”

The Café model features colleagues from different community colleges. This session featured Haywood Community College faculty and instruction designers, and the purpose, process and practice of assessment and feedback.

Facilitated by Dr. Malinda Daniel, this session is part 2 of the discussion on HyFlex course design. HyFlex is defined as providing students the opportunity to attend a single course in three modalities.

Facilitated by Stephanie Gilbert and Jamey Harlow, this session is part 1 of 2 of the discussion on HyFlex course design. HyFlex is defined as providing students the opportunity to attend a single course in three modalities.

Facilitated by a faculty member and student this session explores course design with emphasis on group work and active learning principles.