by Amy Boone | Nov 30, 2023 | Adams Blog, Adams Center Event, In Case You Missed It
Dr. Trey Shirley provided information about applying for and developing an Honors Colloquium. These slides detail the new tracks for the Honors College and the process for creating a colloquium. For the 2024-2025 school year, applications are due January 12, 2024. In...
by Amy Boone | Oct 11, 2023 | Adams Blog, Adams Center Event, In Case You Missed It, Lunch
Today the Adams Center hosted part 2 of the series on supporting students in college-level reading. The activities and ideas shared were directly from Dr. Jenae Cohn’s book Skim, Dive, Surface. Slides with these activities are on the second half of this slide...
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...
