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Dipping our Toes into the AI Ocean

Friday, April 5, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., Wuller 222

In this interactive workshop participants will learn basics around how generative AI works, utilize a generative AI tool to produce text and employ basic prompt writing techniques. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with others regarding AI prompting and considering generative AI usage in your course. Participants should bring their own computers and at least one past or current assignment with them.

Registration is required

Thinking and Teaching with AI

Tuesday, April 16, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Zoom
Guest facilitator: José Bowen

The excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. AI is changing working and thinking: as jobs and the way humans do thinking tasks change, how will our curriculum respond? AI is also changing how we think about average. If ChatGPT can produce consistent "C" work than we need to update our policies around grading. AI is even changing creativity. Together, we will examine the skills and content that will matter most in this new age, what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why articulation of ‘quality’ is essential. Focusing on the tangible, attendees will also learn techniques to transform assignments and assessments to motivate and engage students by placing greater emphasis on the process and experience of learning.

Registration is Required

About our facilitator:

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as president of a USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a Trustee of DePauw University, a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England and runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., doing innovation, pedagogy and D&I consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, Humanities and Musicology) and has written over 100 scholarly articles in top journals and in books from Oxford, Cambridge and Princeton university presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. His books on teaching include Teaching Naked (2012) winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the sequel, Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes with G. Edward Watson (2017) and the recent and the new Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021, Johns Hopkins University Press). His new book with G. Edward Watson, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning will be published in March, 2024 (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011), has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates. He was given a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990 and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. 

Two-Week Principles Courses

Participants enrolled in the Principles Certificate are required to take three online courses. Online courses are asynchronous, last two weeks each, and must be taken in order. Information about online course requirements and descriptions are detailed here.

  • Teaching Philosophy: January 22 - February 2 (closed)
  • Course Design: February 12 - 23 (closed)
  • Learning Technologies: April 2 - 15

Registration is required

Praxis Workshops

At its most basic meaning, praxis is the combination of theory and practice. All certificates in the Certificate in University Teaching Skills Program require participants to attend several Praxis Workshops. Designed specifically with the objectives of the certificate program in mind, the Reinert Center's Praxis Workshops are interactive sessions during which an expert facilitator designs a learning experience around a particular pedagogical topic that creates the opportunity for participants to explore a new idea, or an established idea in a new way.

  • January 30: Academic Integrity, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., in person
  • Climate Change: How Behavior and Anxiety Impact Class Climate, February 7, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Zoom
  • Flipped Classroom Strategies, February 20, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Zoom
  • Experience/Reflections/Action: Ignatian Pedagogy and Active Learning, March 20, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., Wuller 222
  • Active Learning for Large Classes, April 2, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Wuller 222

Registration is required

Online Courses: Spring/Summer 2024

The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching. Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken by individuals not enrolled in the certificate.

Registration is Required

July 9 - July 23: Introduction to Distance Teaching
The Introduction to Distance Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.

 

Save-the-Date: Ignatian Pedagogy Institute

Tuesday, May 7, morning half-day workshop