FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

H5P is a free tool that any faculty can use to create interactive course content. This session will allow participants to see how we created a customized, interactive experience/manual for students to supplement Anatomy lab activities.

This session will empower participants to identify topics to gamify and strategize how to find or build their own games to employ in the classroom. In my experience, games help students push past the habit of memorization into application in context. They are better able to predict outcomes and imagine real-life scenarios after playing games related to content they have already been exposed to in traditional contexts.  

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.

In this session, the presenters will describe the experience of adopting an open educational resource for a course, the motivation to adapt that open educational resource, and the steps they took to manage an OER adaptation project . The participants will be engaged with prompting questions and conversation points during each section of the presentation, and they will be given time to brainstorm and discuss the challenges, motivations, tools, and support they have at their own campuses to take on similar projects.

Switching to an OER text can be intimidating to those who care about accessibility. This panel explores ideas on abandoning publisher created activities for more inclusive and affordable options while still maintaining a high standard of accessibility.