Faculty Success: Higher Ed Conversations

To integrate or not to integrate AI components in the classroom. This is the question! Listen to Towson University Department of Music faculty Terry Ewell and Luis Engelke offer differing perspectives and considerations for permitting students the use of AI for course assignments in their online Ethical Issues and Perspectives in Music course sections. Also, learn about students' perspectives toward using AI for course assignments, when permitted in the course.

Guest Professor Montana McCormick in the Department of Secondary Middle Education talks about the challenges in permanently shifting her practice online after years as an accomplished classroom practitioner with the aim of achieving similar success in another modality.

It can be difficult to know where to start in making course content accessible. Guests, Brian Williams TU Digital Accessibility Analyst, Tricia Halstead, Manager of Blackboard Administration along with host Teresa Valais, FACET Sr. Instructional Designer share accessibility tips and tricks to ensure the design of Blackboard courses and materials and assignments are as accessible as possible to as many different people as possible from the start.  

Tap into this podcast to learn about the support available to TU faculty. 

Guests Samuel Collins, Professor of Anthropology and Kelly Elkins Professor in Chemistry, and host Teresa Valais talk about ways AI is resetting how we learn and work and the implications on teaching & learning as well as the future of work.

Guest Dr. Katherine Holman, Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education, shares the process she incorporates to plan and execute engaging synchronous learning. She talks about ways she employs active learning strategies and innovative techniques to foster student engagement and learning. Tap into this episode to learn ways to build and cultivate a vibrant online learning community.

Guests Samuel Collins, Professor of Anthropology, Jennifer Potter, Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies, and Kelly Elkins Professor of Chemistry, talk about Faculty Mentoring at Towson University. These FACET Fellows share ways FACET supports faculty professional growth and how to leverage FACET Fellows and other faculty campus resources to forward your scholarship, teaching, research, and service efforts.

Listening to learn. Samuel Clevenger, Department of Kinesiology Assistant Professor, talks about his experience incorporating podcasts for teaching, learning, and alternative assessment. Learn ways students interact with podcasts, lessons learned and getting started advice he shares for faculty.