by Amy Boone | Sep 15, 2023 | Adams Blog, Adams Center Event, In Case You Missed It, Lunch
Faculty regularly express concern about the struggles many students encounter when reading and engaging with course reading materials. This weakness, combined with an unwillingness to read class materials, makes it even more difficult for students to engage your...
by Amy Boone | Sep 1, 2023 | Adams Blog, In Case You Missed It
A topic of frequent conversation at the Adams Center includes policies and classroom practices about attendance, participation, and engagement. Faculty often find themselves trying something new each semester or implementing a new, promising plan only to have it go...
by Laura Carroll | Aug 10, 2023 | Adams Blog
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....
by Scott Hamm | Apr 24, 2023 | Adams Blog
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...
by Amy Boone | Apr 20, 2023 | Adams Blog
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...
by Cliff Barbarick | Apr 20, 2023 | Adams Blog
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...
