As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Kaali Dass from USC Bovard College shared a practical framework for using AI-generated case studies, structured prompts, and interactive breakout sessions in graduate courses. This approach helped students connect theory with real-world application, practice decision-making, receive timely feedback, and translate knowledge into action.
As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Dana Milstein from the Dornsife Writing Program and Keck School of Medicine explored how hands-on DIY practices and AI can come together to teach ethical stewardship of AI-assisted workflows. Drawing on course activities that paired AI with woodworking, weaving, board games, music, and mocktails, Milstein highlighted how learners practice supervising AI while integrating human judgment, material knowledge, and embodied experience.
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.
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.
This resource provides an overview of creating and using community agreements in a course to support respectful and productive student engagement. It includes options for how to create agreements, tips for implementation, and example agreements.
Keywords: community agreements, discussion norms, discussion guidelines, community guidelines, challenging discussions, academic discussions, dialogue, student engagement.
This resource covers strategies for academic discussions in a variety of teaching settings, including tips for planning discussions, options for whole and small-group discussion types, considerations for assessing student discussions, and relevant research.
Keywords: discussion, small group discussion, discussion forums, active learning, community agreements, discussion norms, strategic questions, participation.
This resource provides strategies on active learning for a variety of teaching settings, including tips for implementation, sample activity descriptions, options for planning active learning, and relevant research.
Bobby Borg of the USC Thornton School of Music discusses how student teams can use fictional artist personas to collaboratively create innovative music marketing strategies during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Tara Mastro of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology discusses utilizing the power of group learning where student groups design a pitch for a public awareness campaign during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Leonardo Morsut of the USC Keck School of Medicine discusses a strategy to structure group assignments for in-class activities using collaborative tools during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
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