Spring 2024 semester
Each semester the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning invites faculty to submit proposals for collaboration with CITL and LTS staff on various aspects of their pedagogy and research with the goal of providing access to staff and technology resources to enhance and advance their teaching.
For the Spring 2024 semester, we encouraged faculty to submit proposals in five particular areas:
- the use of generative AI,
- the use of virtual reality and immersive learning environments,
- the inclusion of inquiry-based learning activities and assignments,
- the creation of cross-disciplinary course moments, and
- the use of LTS flexible learning spaces to promote active learning
2024 Spring Fellows
Joseph Amodei, MFA
Design and development of Immersive Media Design projects for students.
Dr. Haiyan Jia
Create an engaging student experience by incorporating hands-on activities with AI data journalism and data storytelling.
Jennifer Kowalski, MFA
Create lessons focused on user-centered design for user experience
Dr. LaToya Council
Implement more student-driven and tangible outcome style projects for assessments.
Dr. Larry Tartaglia
Utilize VR as a means to teach lecture content through fully immersing students in learning where they can see, decipher, and interpret real-life virological principles.
Teresa Cusumano, M.A., M.S. & Jessica Harbaum, M.Ed
Develop interactive approaches for students to participate in this Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course.
Dr. Angelina Rodriguez
Students will work on qualitative interview skills, synthesis and coding, and encourage them to "think deeply about how they plan to sustain themselves and each other as global health professionals."
Limei Shan M.A & Dr. Zilong Pan
Incorporate a generative AI-enhanced model to facilitate Chinese language teaching and learning.
Dr. Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez
Create high production value instructional videos so as to implement a 'flipped classroom'
Dr. Almut Hupbach
Re-design of the major class project incorporating an inquiry-based learning project to enhance student engagement.
Dr. Kayleigh O'Keeffe
Develop a scaffolded communication project assignment, in which students choose a topic and communicates the topic to a non-scientific audience.
Dr. Krista Liguori
Students will experience empathy building VR and work in groups to research an ethical- or justice-related historic event and create a podcast.
Dr. Michelle Spicer
Incorporate inquiry-based group projects into a course that broadly introduces non-majors to local, regional, and global biodiversity.
Dr. Ginny McSwain
Develop an inquiry-based, student-led project that incorporates VR technology to visualize astrophysics data in a new way.
Dr. Thomas Chen
Develop a podcast assignment that will support students as they "thoughtfully carry out their own memoir writing," and thus engage in a "reflexive dialogue with the literature."
E.J. Rovella, MBA, MHA
Create lessons focused on discussion, interaction, peer feedback and generative AI.