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Upcoming Events

Summer Design Series

The CATE Summer Design Series targets timely topics to upskill your pedagogy just in time for considering updates to your fall course design. All sessions are virtual via Microsoft Teams from 10: 00 am to 12:00 pm. For more details and to RSVP, click here. The CATE team will send calendar updates with logistics based on your RSVP choices. 

 

Tuesday, July 9 - Designing for AI and Human Collaboration with MS Copilot. 

Participants in this session will build prompt engineering skills to use Microsoft Copilot for an array of instructional design tasks. For example, with the help of artificial intelligence, you can effectively tighten syllabus language and create effective rubrics in minutes.  

 

Wednesday, July 10 - Designing for Authenticity with IRIS. 

Participants will use an IRIS (issue, relevance, interdisciplinary, sustained inquiry) approach to create authentic learning experiences. Through engagement in modeled classroom protocols, participants identify an authentic issue in the field that students can research and attempt to solve using the ‘tools of the trade.’ 

 

Thursday, July 11- Designing Assessment as Learning for Student Growth.

Participants will take away strategies for low-stakes feedback loops that encourage a culture of ‘failing forward,’ productive struggle paired with ‘ungrading’ approaches to support a growth mindset, and backward planning to chunk manageable feedback cycles with opportunities to improve.  

Latest News

Congratulations to Department of Radio-Television-Film Professor Richard Lewis, recipient of this year’s Moody College Teaching Excellence Award!

Maya L. Henry

Congratulations to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Associate Professor Maya Henry for becoming a 2024 Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholar, Mentor!

Dawna Ballard

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Communication Studies Dawna Ballard for receiving the President’s Associates Graduate Teaching Excellence Award

Natalie Bidnick Andreas

Congratulations to Communication Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction Natalie Bidnick Andreas for becoming a 2024-2025 Fractalizing Pedagogy Fellow!

Brad Love

Congratulations to Advertising & Public Relations Associate Professor Brad Love for becoming a 2024 Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholar, Mentee!

joe cutbirth

Congratulations to Communication Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction Joe Cutbirth for becoming a 2024 Provost’s Teaching Fellow!