Training Opportunities

Oct

Location

Online

Date & Time

October 27, 2023, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

Learn about Ally, a tool available in Blackboard Original and Ultra courses, that improves the accessibility of your course content. Schedule a personal consultation to see Ally’s remediation...

View Event Details for Boost Accessibility: Blackboard Ally Virtual Office Hours

Oct

Location

Online

Date & Time

October 26, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Resources Webex recording (UMBC login req'd) Presentation slides Anonymous feedback form Given higher-education's so-called "Demographic Cliff" of fewer traditional 18-22 year-old students...

View Event Details for Predicting transfer student 4-year graduation

Oct

Location

Online

Date & Time

October 18, 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

The popularity of in-class quizzes and writing assignments is on the rise as the value of homework assignments is diminished by ChatGPT, Chegg, and other internet resources. Many assessments are...

View Event Details for Webinar - Assessment Integrity & Respondus Lockdown Browser

Oct

Location

Online

Date & Time

October 18, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

Do you struggle with student engagement in your online synchronous classes? Do you wish your online class could use more active learning techniques, but you do not know where to start? During...

View Event Details for Webinar: Sparking Student Engagement in Synchronous Classes

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 29, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Resources Meeting Recording (UMBC login req'd) Presentation slides Anonymous evaluation In this session, Dr. Tom Penniston (DoIT) will discuss his recently presented paper on UMBC’s efforts...

View Event Details for Toward a New Paradigm: Learning Analytics 2.0

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 21, 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

Culturally responsive teaching in higher education, according to Every Learner Everywhere in the 2020 blog post, “Curricula that Account for All Students: A Look at Culturally Responsive Teaching...

View Event Details for Free Webinar: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 20, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

Given what we know about what ChatGPT and other AI tools can — and cannot— do, as educators we must confront two very different issues: First, what should we be teaching our students to prepare...

View Event Details for Webinar: Rising to Meet the Challenge of ChatGPT

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 19, 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

A recent report by Goldman Sachs predicts that AI could replace 300 million full-time jobs. However, another report from Dell Technologies suggests that 85% of jobs by 2030 do not currently...

View Event Details for AI and How to Prepare Students For Careers That Don’t Exist

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 18, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Blackboard Ultra now includes a new Flexible Grading interface to support grading by question, student, or a mix and match approach. Flexible Grading provides a streamlined navigation to help...

View Event Details for New: Flexible Grading in Blackboard Ultra

Sep

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 7, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chat interface for its large language model that users can use to make a seemingly endless array of queries that often result in stunning responses. The relative ease in...

View Event Details for Webinar - ChatGPT & AI: Preparing for Literacy & Leadership

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Training Opportunities

Boost Accessibility: Blackboard Ally Virtual Office Hours

Schedule Your Personal Ally Course Consultation

Predicting transfer student 4-year graduation

And why it matters

Webinar - Assessment Integrity & Respondus Lockdown Browser

Webinar: Sparking Student Engagement in Synchronous Classes

Practical and fun strategies to apply in your course

Toward a New Paradigm: Learning Analytics 2.0

1st LA Comm. of Practice Mtg. for FA23

Free Webinar: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning

Sponsored by WCET and Anthology

Webinar: Rising to Meet the Challenge of ChatGPT

Strategies to apply in your course

AI and How to Prepare Students For Careers That Don’t Exist

Free webinar from InsideHigherEd

New: Flexible Grading in Blackboard Ultra

Grade by question or by student

Webinar - ChatGPT & AI: Preparing for Literacy & Leadership

Free webinar from EDUCAUSE

Schedule Your Personal Ally Course Consultation

And why it matters

Practical and fun strategies to apply in your course

1st LA Comm. of Practice Mtg. for FA23

Sponsored by WCET and Anthology

Strategies to apply in your course

Free webinar from InsideHigherEd

Grade by question or by student

Free webinar from EDUCAUSE

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