As Gen AI (GAI) tools proliferated across the globe during the last few semesters, did you find yourself panicked, excited, or feeling a bit of both? Were you overwhelmed by the implications for academic integrity or overcome by a sense of wonder at the boundless potential to innovate our teaching, learning, and research? However you … Continue reading Navigating the Future of Learning with Gen AI
Responding to Ally Accessibility Scores in Your Courses
The USC Upstate Accessibility Commitment aims to ensure students, faculty, and staff have access to all spaces and materials where learning takes place. Luckily, Blackboard Ultra has made faculty's role in fulling this commitment easier than ever. The university-adopted quality assurance program holds all courses to a high standard of accessibility, including expectations that all … Continue reading Responding to Ally Accessibility Scores in Your Courses
Summer CV Refresh
As you're basking in the summer sun or working on your summer teaching or research, make time to update your CV and accompanying materials. The CV is often a summary or a snapshot of all your academic achievements and in the life of a faculty member, a lot can change in a year. If you're … Continue reading Summer CV Refresh
Toward a Neuroinclusive Campus
The term neurodiversity emerged as researchers and families increased efforts to better understand the needs and abilities of children and people with autism. At the same time, significant changes were made to the federal Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act, which began to recognize autism and TBI (traumatic brain injuries) as new disability categories and to … Continue reading Toward a Neuroinclusive Campus
Getting the Most from Your Learning Evaluation Survey Data
As the semester closes out and we move into summer, I like to set aside some time to wade into the student learning evaluations for my classes. Despite the efforts to make student learning meaningful and enduring each semester, I still find myself filled with a certain familiar sense of angst as I click the … Continue reading Getting the Most from Your Learning Evaluation Survey Data