Center for Excellence in TeachingOptimizing Open-ended Ancillary Assessments: Brightspace Quizzes vs Assignments
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024 Jennifer Bankard compares and assesses the effectiveness of Brightspace quizzes versus assignments regarding open-ended homework questions or projects.
Sources: CET | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff | Disciplines: All Disciplines
Streamlining Pedagogy and Task Distribution: Working with Groups and TAs in Brightspace
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Julianna Kirschner discusses setting up Brightspace group assignments and discusses the managing evaluators tool for grading in classes with TAs.
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Community Building Activities
This resource provides guidance for incorporating community building activities into a course to foster belonging, increase engagement, and build collaboration and communication skills. It includes strategies and considerations for using community building activities as well as sample activities categorized by purpose. Keywords: community building, icebreakers, belonging, inclusion, collaboration, group work.
Sources: CET | Formats: Document | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
AI Literacy 101
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Minh Trinh, Price School of Public Policy, presents the “AI 101” infographic she designed to provide faculty at Price with practical strategies for choosing AI tools, creating prompts, developing policies, and mitigating unauthorized use. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
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AI Tutorial: Mindful Applications
In this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Jane Lah and Neha Rao, USC Libraries, provide an overview of a student-facing mini-course, “AI: Mindful Applications,” designed to provide undergraduate students with a self-paced tutorial on informed and ethical use of generative AI in writing and research. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
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What does a robot sound like on the page?
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Andrew De Silva, Dornsife College of Arts, Letters and Sciences, shares insight on comparing human- and AI-produced writing using a sample essay prompt from the Dornsife Writing Program. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
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Choosing the right AI tool for my classroom: A focused use case for STEM and beyond.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Tina Austin, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, presents an approach to selecting AI tools and tasks that align with STEM course learning objectives and deepen student engagement with content. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
Sources: CET | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff | Disciplines: All Disciplines, STEM
Using AI to teach negotiation and mediation
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Peter Carnevale, Marshall School of Business, describes an assignment he redesigned to have students practice key negotiation and mediation skills by engaging in a role play with AI. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
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AI inclusive teaching: Adaptive learning, custom GPTs, and practical strategies
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Misha Kouzeh, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, describes strategies for building student AI literacy and for using AI to personalize learning. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
Sources: CET | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff | Disciplines: All Disciplines