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You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog. The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.
Thinking about AI Syllabus Policies
As the semester approaches, the reality of ChatGPT (and other large-language-model tools) use looms large. Students across higher ed report that they use AI extensively, and many faculty are designing ways to use AI in class assignments, activities, and scaffolding....
Leveraging Canvas in Your Teaching
The Adams Center for Teaching Excellence at ACU in conjunction with the Innovation Foundry recently held three exciting sessions to address the use of Canvas, the university's learning management system. These sessions covered a variety of topics, from the...
Advising and Career Development Updates
In a conversation with Nuria Hall, Director for Academic Advising and Career Development, she shared some insights with the Adams Center into the work of ACU’s advising team and how faculty can best partner with advisors. Advisors seek to work with professors as they...
Student Fellows Blog Post: Course Structure
By Student Fellows Brett Fedderson and Joan Lavaki During our session at the Adams Center, we presented to faculty the idea of caring for students through course structure. Sometimes as students, we experience structural course elements that are unhelpful to both our...
Student Fellows Blog Post: Group Work
By Student Fellows Cathy Zhou and Elizabeth Locke As we all know, having all kinds of group projects in our college life is an inevitable experience. Group projects have advantages and disadvantages. In this session, we brought up different perspectives about group...
How To Effectively Use Technology in the Classroom: Student Fellows
Two Adams Center Student Fellows – Connor Mullins and Nate Wade – led a discussion in How To Effectively Use Technology in the Classroom on April 3. In the discussion, faculty were asked to discuss with their groups about the way they see students use technology...
Student Retention FAQs
How can individual faculty members attend to retention in our courses? When we think about retention in individual courses, there are two main areas to focus on: belonging and student success. How can I cultivate belonging in my courses? Tell students that you are...
AI Session 1 Spring 2023: What is Modern AI?
With the sudden increase in AI with the entrance of GPT3, faculty find themselves scrambling to arm themselves with good information about the educational ramifications of AI. Before looking at the implications for the classroom, learning about the basics of AI is...
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