Emory College Learning Design Workshops

The Emory College Learning Design team offers a variety of workshops for college instructors throughout the year. These workshops are designed to support teachers as they prepare to teach engaging and effective in-person, online, and hybrid courses. View our recent workshops below.

Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

The Learning Design team will have a series of workshop sessions coming up that will explore our AI Series. These workshops are available to all ECAS faculty.

AI Basics in Higher Education

AI Series Workshop

Friday, October 25th, 2024 (11:00am-12:00pm, Zoom)

Discover how VoiceThread and Panopto can enhance student engagement through multimedia experiences. Learn to integrate these tools for collaborative projects, flipped classroom activities, and audio or video-based assignments that showcase student learning.

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Rethinking Your Course With AI

AI Series Workshop

Friday, November 1st, 2024 (11:00am-12:00pm, Zoom)

Explore practical active learning strategies to boost student engagement and critical thinking. Learn how to implement techniques like think-pair-share, close reading, and polling to create a dynamic classroom environment.

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Student Assignments With AI

AI Series Workshop

Friday, November 8th, 2024 (11:00am-12:00pm, Zoom)

In this final session, we'll shift the focus to students' use of AI in completing assignments and learning. Topics include developing AI fluency, setting clear AI policies for your class, and ensuring academic integrity in an AI-powered world. Learn how to guide students in using AI responsibly and effectively while upholding educational standards.

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Recent Workshops

The Learning Design team offered a series of workshop sessions that explored the main educational technologies that are available to all ECAS faculty. Technologies in these workshops included the new-to-campus Gradescope, our lecture capture tool, Panopto, our asynchronous multimedia discussion tool, VoiceThread, and more. The discussion was centered on supporting classroom instructional goals and promoting engaging learning experiences for students. Emory College faculty highlighted the ways that they have utilized these tools in the classroom. In addition, the Learning Design team offered an Active Learning Strategies Workshop and a Audio Video Workshop. The Audio Video Workshop will be rescheduled due to inclament weather.

Edtech Lightning Round

Workshop

These back-to-school workshops explored the learning technologies available to all Emory College faculty. The technologies included:

VoiceThread: a multimedia tool for threaded discussions & presentations using video, audio, and other media
Gradescope: an automated grading tool that expedites the grading of bubble sheets, other paper-based assignments, and digital assignments
Panopto: the College’s primary video management tool that may be used for classroom lecture capture or production of videos by instructors and students

Voicethread workshop recording

Gradescope workshop recording

Panopto workshop recording

Emory College Teaching Essentials

Workshop

This informative session covered classroom technology setup, such as connecting to classroom devices, accessing your content, using AV software, recording live class sessions, in addition to Canvas course essentials to support in-person learning.

Edtech workshop recording

Active Learning Strategies

Workshop

Faculty explored practical active learning strategies to boost student engagement and critical thinking. They learned how to implement techniques like think-pair-share, close reading, and polling to create a dynamic classroom environment.

Audio and Video Tools for Student Engagement

Workshop

Postponed due to weather- will be rescheduled