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Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL)

Teaching and Learning Strategies (TLS) Program at Villanova, May 15, 2024 Bartley Hall 

Keynote: Co-Intelligence: AI and Instruction with Drs. Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, Wharton Interactive, University of Pennsylvania, and Faculty Colleagues

 

 

 

 

The end of the academic year TLS program always offers a fitting venue to reflect on our teaching practices and experiences in a stimulating campus-wide forum to share instructional practices that support our students’ learning, exchange ideas with colleagues, and learn from and with each other as faculty share their teaching expertise by offering interactive sessions or panel discussions.

This year, Drs. Mollick and Mollick provided us an engaging Keynote that encouraged us all to consider the implications of A.I. for our course designs and approaches to teaching. Faculty attendees appreciated the thorough overview of generative A.I. tools and capabilities currently available to faculty and students through real-time demonstrations of ChatGPT. Resources from the Keynote can be found on the Teaching in the Age of A.I. Instructional Resources page.

I found the entire day uplifting. The enthusiasm among the faculty was contagious and renewed my interest in being the best teacher possible.

Sessions raised my awareness of gender issues and micro aggressions and it made me more conscious of the need to create an inclusive learning environment.

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss what I’ve learned with enthusiastic, motivated, intellectually curious, and caring colleagues.

I learned more ways to engage students, have them “do more of the work,” and what it means to be a teacher at Villanova. I feel very motivated and encouraged in my role as a teacher.

The keynote introduced some interesting perspectives about what motivates students to do the work of learning. I plan to communicate more clearly to my students the importance of the material in my classes.

Different approaches to building community in class as well as mechanisms for online sharing of course material.

I will try to use Kahoot as a classroom polling technology. I got a lot of good ideas regarding active learning strategies for helping students to feel more comfortable and engaged.

I learned some more details about flipped classes pertaining to technical content with details on getting students to watch the videos ahead of class, grading, and best enhancing the video without repeating it.

A colleague gave me an idea for a midterm survey related to participation that I plan to use - have the students evaluate their participation, and explain reasons for their level of participation.

It's great to gather as an interdisciplinary group all focused on teaching at Villanova. The insights shared in networking and the content from the sessions were excellent.

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