Paideia Workshop RSVPJoin CTL Director Rachel Lloyd for this participatory demonstration lesson and introduction to the Paideia (pie DAY a) approach to designing and facilitating text-based discussions. In today’s challenging political climate, the skills of civil, civic-minded, and evidence-based democratic deliberation are a necessity.  Paideia is a pedagogy that encourages student-centered, democratic discussions around a … Continue reading "Supporting Civil Dialogue using Paideia Discussion"

Webinar link:  https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/97096491915?pwd=d5YF18knaFOr5HMCmr67IHxq1kkB0S.1This session will introduce a new tool Augsburg is piloting for the '24/'25 school year. It leverages Moodle’s text editor (TinyMCE) to provide insights into student effort and revisions for writing in your Moodle classroom. While not an AI classifier, it does provide new essential data for understanding the student’s writing process and verifying … Continue reading "Introduction to Cursive"

Webinar link:  https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/97096491915?pwd=d5YF18knaFOr5HMCmr67IHxq1kkB0S.1We’ll quickly revisit new writing-focused data in the Augsburg Moodle before turning to AI-use policy approaches for your course (including the AI Assessment Scale). With the remaining time, we’ll discuss assignment designs you might use to assist students in exploring writing with generative AI in explicitly permitted, responsible, and verifiable ways.Joe Thibault, Cursive CEO … Continue reading "Cursive Webinar II: Moodle Assignments for any AI policy"

In the spring of 2024, First Year and Senior students completed the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This survey measures students’ perception of Academic Challenge, Student-Faculty Interactions, Quality of Interactions, and experience with High Impact Practices. Meanwhile, faculty provided their perception of students’ course experiences on the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). The … Continue reading "Examining Trends from 2023-24 NSSE/ FSSE"

Register Hosted by The American Academy of Religion. Panelists:  Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri Endowed Chair and Executive Director of Interfaith Studies, Augsburg University and Rachel Mikva, the Herman E. Schaalman Professor in Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow of the Interreligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary.Professors Mikva and Syeed will share stories about their teaching experiences across religious, ideological, and world view … Continue reading "Webinar: Teaching Across Difference in Times of Trauma"

Registration linkThe Council of Independent Colleges Artificial Intelligence Ready Network is offering a 4 part series on AI Integration for faculty.  Week One - Oct 31 - Overview of Tools for Personalized Learning and AIWeek Two - Nov 7 - Tools for Personalized Learning and AI Case Studies and Current PracticesWeek Three - Nov 14 - Tools for … Continue reading "AI Ready Faculty Webinar Series"