FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference: Full Schedule

10:30am CDT

Integrating AI in Teaching: Opportunities and Challenges

Thursday October 3, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

AI's introduction in education brings both potential benefits and concerns regarding academic integrity and learning outcomes. This session will showcase examples of AI integration in courses, share student feedback, and provide faculty tips and lessons learned.

Speakers

Ying-Hsiu Liu

Instructional Designer, Missouri Online

Molly Vetter Dreier

Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Missouri - Columbia

Gregory Cox

Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Missouri - Columbia

AI in Teaching Opportunities & Challenges pptx

Thursday October 3, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Active Learning / Engagement, Professional / Faculty Development

11:30am CDT

Using AI to Support Competency-Based Learning

Thursday October 3, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

This session will demonstrate using ChatGPT to create quiz banks that can be used for formative assessments. These quiz banks can allow students to assess their understanding of concepts, working on them until mastery. Generative AI tools allow instructors to create quiz banks efficiently.

Speakers

Elizabeth Roepke

Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University

Thursday October 3, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

25-minute Information session

Institutional Partner Saint Louis University
Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence)

1:00pm CDT

Using AI for an Asynchronous, Online Active Learning Activity

Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

This session explores using an AI-generated, interactive, self-directed review activity as an active learning component in an asynchronous, online course. Specifically, an AI “script” will be provided for attendees to paste into ChatGPT (or their preferred AI tool) to explore educational research concepts. The activity was adapted from several scripts provided in Kosslyn’s Active Learning with AI (2023). The session also reviews student feedback on the effectiveness of this activity to meet course learning outcomes.

Speakers

Jolyn Dahlvig

Assistant Professor, Higher Education Leadership, Maryville University

FTTC 2024. Using Ai for an Asynchronous, Online Active pdf

Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

25-minute Information session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Active Learning / Engagement, Online, Hyflex & Blended Design

1:00pm CDT

Gamifying Quantitative Reasoning with AI and Standards-Based Grading

Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

This session will help you turn your "boring old online class" into an action-packed quest with adventure around every turn! Ok, not quite, but it will show you how to use AI to make your class feel more like an adventure than an assignment for your students and open their minds to the exploratory nature of learning. You'll also see how integrating standards-based grading can help shift students' mindsets away from accumulating points and focus them on gaining skills.

Speakers

Brandy Englert

Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair, STLCC - Forest Park

Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Alternative Assessment, Online, Hyflex & Blended Design

1:00pm CDT

Building Awareness and Action Through Reflective Practices and AI Tools

Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

Join this session to enhance your reflective teaching practices by critically examining four feedback lenses. Grounded in critical pedagogy, you'll explore strategies to meet diverse student needs. Discover how AI can assist in identifying and implementing impactful, sustainable changes in your teaching.

Link: Slide deck and resources

Speakers

Bonni Stachowiak

Dean of Teaching + Learning // Producer + Host, Vanguard University // Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast

Bonni Stachowiak gets the privilege of speaking with exceptional educators as the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Since 2014, her podcast has provided a space to explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning.Bonni is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at Vanguard University. She also a Professor of Business and Management. Teaching and learning are vital to her se... Read More →

Alexis Peirce Caudell

Lecturer, Ludy School of Informative, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University-Bloomington

Talk to me about: teaching, children's geographies, active learning strategies, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), social informatics, computing and information ethics, project based learning, teaching large courses, collaborative online international learning (COIL), supporting... Read More →

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Thursday October 3, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

90-Minute Workshop

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Inclusive Teaching / Accessible Design / UDL, Professional / Faculty Development

2:00pm CDT

AI & Academic Integrity: What Happened to Critical Inquiry?

Thursday October 3, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

The goal of this session is to provide scaffolding for institutional conversations surrounding the use of AI and its impact on academic integrity. In addition, participants will collaborate and discuss practical strategies to support students in developing critical inquiry skills through alternative assessment options.

Speakers

Kami Hancock

Instructor, East Central College

Thursday October 3, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Alternative Assessment, Professional / Faculty Development

2:00pm CDT

Unlocking the Full Potential of AI in Education: Beyond Online Homework & Quizzes...Introducing Bongo

Thursday October 3, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

Join us as we explore how AI-powered coaching and assessments are revolutionizing the educational landscape. While AI has become synonymous with content creation and quiz generation, we'll delve deeper into its transformative capabilities, particularly in coaching students and assessing their progress. Learn how to elevate student engagement to unlock the full potential of AI in education.
Bongo’s video-based training and assessment platform empowers instructors to teach, track, and validate learning in one place—with an easy-to-use system that keeps them focused on their students.

Speakers

Nora Davidson

Sr. Account Executive for University of Missouri, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Cengage

Emily McLellan

Bongo Customer Success, Cengage

Kim Knab

Bongo Customer Success, Cengage

Sponsors

Cengage Learning

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Thursday October 3, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Corporate Sponsor Cengage
Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Alternative Assessment

3:00pm CDT

Marching into Madness: Students VS ChatGPT in a Tournament Bracket

Thursday October 3, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

This session showcases an in-class activity using GoogleSheets (that can occur in person or virtually) where students compete against ChatGPT for who can write the best first line to an argumentative essay. The rationale for using gamification to introduce students to the boons and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in a flipped classroom format will be discussed, along with the inclusivity and accessibility—for both types of learners and faculty across disciplines—of the activity.

Speakers

Kasey Grady

Senior Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis

Kasey Grady, who publishes under Kasey Perkins, is a teacher, freelance editor, and writer who completed her MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2014. She also holds a MA in English with a focus on writing pedagogy and a BA in English with a focus on composition... Read More →

Thursday October 3, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

25-minute Information session

Institutional Partner Washington University in St. Louis
Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Active Learning / Engagement, Inclusive Teaching / Accessible Design / UDL

3:00pm CDT

How Does Generative AI Actually Work?

Thursday October 3, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

They keep telling us that AI is the future of education. But how does AI actually work? When you type text into ChatGPT, an ensemble of technologies spring into action to predict the response you'll be happy with: we'll open the hood and take a look at them; and in doing so, we'll build intuition for where this technology is headed and what it means for your classroom in the near and long-term.

Speakers

Sawyer Altman

CEO, Goblins

Thursday October 3, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Active Learning / Engagement, Tech Tool Introduction

9:00am CDT

Intermediate AI Prompt Writing

Friday October 4, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

AI Prompt Writing is a skill that many faculty and students now seek to master. This hands-on session is aimed at faculty who have begun to explore AI prompt writing and wish to progress to a higher level.

Speakers

Ying-Hsiu Liu

Instructional Designer, Missouri Online

Guy Wilson

Instructional Technologist, UM System

Friday October 4, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

90-Minute Workshop

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence)

11:00am CDT

AI Assignment Repositories: Peer-Generated Activities You Can Actually Use

Friday October 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

Learn about the steps and challenges involved in piloting an open access repository for assignments that challenge students to use AI in intellectually rigorous ways. Whether you’re new to generative AI or a seasoned ChatGPT user, this session will give you the tools to facilitate peer-to-peer sharing of faculty-generated and reviewed teaching activities at your institution. Ask questions and discuss potential difficulties with an interdisciplinary team of presenters, including a graduate instructor and fellow at WashU’s CTL, an award-winning professor and director of the CTL, and an experienced academic librarian and expert in digital publishing and repository services.

Speakers

Emily Stenberg (she/her)

Repository Services Manager, WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis

AI Assignment Repositories: Peer-Generated Activities You Can Actually Use, Friday, October 4, 11-11:50 am

Eric Fournier (he/him)

Director of Educational Development, CTL, Washington University in St. Louis

As Director of Educational Development, I help faculty and grad students develop their teaching skills and work with them to design powerful learning experiences for their students.

Katherine Tilghman

Graduate Fellow for Educational Development, CTL, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday October 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Institutional Partner Washington University in St. Louis
Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Open Educational Resources (OER) / eBooks, Professional / Faculty Development

11:00am CDT

Practicing What We Preach: Developing Expectations for Faculty AI Use

Friday October 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

The development of course expectations, often in the form of syllabus statements, has been one of the most common responses of faculty to the use of generative AI by students; we have set expectations for the students we educate. For faculty and staff in higher education, however, it remains a “wild west” with the use of generative AI, but formulating expectations for these stakeholders is essential to ensure their use of this technology is feasible. This presentation will introduce and discuss a framework for determining and setting expectations for higher education faculty and staff.

Speakers

Kirk Wilkins

Instructional Designer II, University of Missouri System

Practicing What We Preach pdf

Friday October 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

50-minute Interactive session

Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Information Literacy, Professional / Faculty Development

1:00pm CDT

Start Here: Integrating AI and Cultivating Academic Integrity With ProcessFeedback

Friday October 4, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT

Virtual; Zoom link provided to registrants

Feedback Survey

This session will introduce new process-oriented tools to cultivate academic integrity and higher-order thinking skills in students. It will also discuss how students can be allowed to use AI in a safeguarded manner. Participants can expect to learn from the co-presenter's experiences and depart with numerous new ideas to implement in their classes.

Speakers

Manu Bhandari

Arkansas State University

Travis Menghini

Computer Science Teacher, Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MCDIS)

Travis Menghini is a Computer Science teacher at MICDS (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School) in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Applied Computing Technology with a concentration in Computing Education and later went on to earn a master's... Read More →

50-minute Interactive session

Institutional Partner University of Missouri-St. Louis, Saint Louis University
Track AI (Generative Artificial Intelligence), Active Learning / Engagement, Tech Tool Introduction

FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

10:30am CDT

Ying-Hsiu Liu

Molly Vetter Dreier

Gregory Cox

11:30am CDT

Elizabeth Roepke

1:00pm CDT

Jolyn Dahlvig

1:00pm CDT

Brandy Englert

1:00pm CDT

Bonni Stachowiak

Alexis Peirce Caudell

2:00pm CDT

Kami Hancock

2:00pm CDT

Nora Davidson

Emily McLellan

Kim Knab

Cengage Learning

3:00pm CDT

Kasey Grady

3:00pm CDT

Sawyer Altman

9:00am CDT

Ying-Hsiu Liu

Guy Wilson

11:00am CDT

Emily Stenberg (she/her)

Eric Fournier (he/him)

Katherine Tilghman

11:00am CDT

Kirk Wilkins

1:00pm CDT

Manu Bhandari

Travis Menghini

Dr Shea Kerkhoff

Badri Adhikari

Jie Hou