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January
Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series: Showcasing GatorEvals & Documenting
1/21/2025 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Instructor(s): John Jordi & Michael Barber
302 Tigert Hall/Hybrid
Join us for an enlightening workshop designed specifically for faculty interested in learning more about the tenure and promotion process. This interactive session will provide valuable insights on how to effectively showcase your GatorEvals in your tenure and promotion packets, as well as explore innovative strategies for documenting student learning in your courses. Register here.
Passport categories: Evidence-Based Teaching, Student Focused Teaching, Teach as Research
Getting Started with AI in Teaching & Learning – AI for Presentations
1/22/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
This session will explore generative AI for creating outlines, images, and slideshows on the fly. Explore the AI tools and techniques at your fingertips to create visually appealing presentations. Learn how to go from initial brainstorming to presentation-ready during this quick start session. Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy
Know & Understand AI: AI Fundamentals
1/23/2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Instructors: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D. and John Jordi, Ph.D.
Online
Are you just getting started exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence? Start here! This workshop will provide an overview of AI and highlight AI applications for teaching and learning. (Open to all; Part of the Harnessing AI FLC) Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Creative Assessment, Digital Literacy
Internationalizing Your Curriculum through the SDGs
1/27/2025 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Instructor: Natalie Coers
In Person | 302 Tigert Hall
Engage with the Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) to explore how this interdisciplinary framework offers disciplinary connections to local and global challenges. Register Here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Cultural Competencies, Experiential Learning, Global Learning, Mentoring, Student Focused Teaching
Power Up Your Proctoring: Mitigating Academic Dishonesty in Online Assessments
1/28/2025 | 12:50 PM – 1:50 PM
Instructor: Diba Mani, Ph.D.
Online
Strategies to effectively deter, detect, and address misconduct in online assessments through robust proctoring techniques while fostering a positive and productive online learning experience. Register Here.
Passport categories: Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching, Tackling Tough Talks
The UF Libraries’ role in Textbook Affordability
1/29/2025 | 9:35 AM – 10:35 AM
Instructor: Sheri L Edwards
Online
The UF Libraries play an important role in helping students secure affordable textbooks. This presentation will identify and describe avenues of textbook affordability available from UF Libraries. Register Here.
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching, Textbook Affordability
Empowering Student Choice: Platforms, Processes, and Products
1/29/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
Let’s talk about scaling up the human component by designing lessons that personalize learning and showcase creativity and innovation. See lesson examples and activities that give students options on platforms, processes, and products to demonstrate competency. Push the envelope with critical thinking and creativity in a variety of authentic formats that truly show what they know. Sharing ideas, resources, and best practices across the session will be encouraged and promoted. Register Here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Creative Assessment, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Go Global, Get Artsy: Internationalize Your Course at the Harn Museum of Art
1/30/2025 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Instructors: Rachel Carrico & Eric Segal
Online
Rachel Carrico shares her experience bringing students to the Harn Museum of Art. Eric Segal discusses a range of ways that faculty use the museum as an instructional resource. Register Here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Cultural Differences in Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
1/31/2025 | 12:50 PM – 1:50 PM
Instructor: Marina Klimenko
Online
We will cover theories and some examples from studies on cultural differences in communication. Register Here.
Passport categories: Cultural Competencies, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Student Focused Teaching
February
Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series: Utilizing Peer Evaluations and Creating Teaching Statements and Portfolios
2/4/2025 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Instructors: Jennifer Parker & Alexandra Bitton-Bailey
302 Tigert Hall/Hybrid
Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series: Utilizing Peer Evaluations and Creating Teaching Statements and Portfolios
Join us for part two of the three part series on prepping for tenure and promotion. This enlightening workshop is designed specifically for faculty interested in learning more about the tenure and promotion process. Collaborate with colleagues and discover strategies to leverage peer evaluations, craft compelling teaching statements, and build outstanding portfolios that showcase your teaching excellence. Register Here.
Session 3: Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series: Working Session on February 18
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching, Teaching as Research, Evidence-Based Teaching
UF Bookstore’s Textbook Adoption Workshop: Exploring All Access and Adoption Submissions
2/4/2025 | 1:55 PM – 2:55 PM
Instructor: Sarah Peterson
302 Tigert Hall/Hybrid
Welcome to the University of Florida! Join the UF Bookstore team with an open invite to our Adoption and UF All Access Workshop. During this workshop, we will explore submitting textbook adoptions, how the University of Florida Bookstore uses this information, and the cost-saving impact this can have on your students. Knowing which materials they need, and their costs, may attract students to your courses and enhance their learning experience. Take a first look at the UF Adoption Portal, understand the state deadlines and terminology, and discover how to save your students time and money with UF All Access. Through this service, students can opt-in to digital materials, including eBooks and courseware, at the guaranteed lowest cost to students. Join us to dive into these topics and connect with the Bookstore as a primary resource for textbooks and supplies. Register Here.
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching, Textbook Affordability
Interactive tools to Engage Your Learners
2/5/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
Looking for ways to engage your learners in interactive experiences that spark interest and creativity? Join us for a lightning session where we will shoot out some of our favorite tools and strategies for engagement. Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Use & Apply AI: Applying AI in your Course
2/6/2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Instructor: Michael Barber, Ph.D. & Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
This workshop will help you leverage AI for creating course materials like assignment rubrics, presentations, images, and more! (Open to all; Part of the Harnessing AI FLC). Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Finding Open Educational Resources
2/12/2025 | 9:35 AM – 10:35 AM
Instructors: Rebel Cummings-Sauls & Elisabeth Ball
Online
Using the Spectrum of Open as a guide, presenters will teach faculty how to identify, locate, and evaluate open educational resources. Register Here.
Passport categories: Textbook Affordability
Cafe Conversations: AI in Small Bytes
2/12/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Instructors: Kaitlin Alexander, Chris Egan, Carinda Feild, and Jennifer Parker
Online
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly prevalent, a pharmacy school drug information assignment was restructured to include the critical evaluation of AI-generated outputs. The revised assignment aimed to educate students about AI and equip them with the skills to critically assess and validate AI-generated information in response to a drug information question. In this assignment, students used the “Format, Language, Usability, and Fanfare (FLUF) Test” to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs. The FLUF Test proved valuable in guiding students’ critique of AI outputs, educating them about AI’s limitations, and emphasizing the importance of AI prompting. Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Creative Assessment, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series: Working Session
2/18/2025 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM EST
Instructor: Alexandra Bitton-Bailey
Online
In our final session, we invite you to bring your draft teaching statements for an intensive, collaborative working session. This is a unique chance to gain diverse perspectives and enhance your narrative, making your submission stand out. This workshop is designed to provide you with personalized feedback from both peers and experts in small group settings. You’ll have the opportunity to refine your teaching statement, ensuring it clearly articulates your teaching philosophy, methods, and accomplishments.
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching, Teaching as Research, Evidence-Based Teaching
Awareness and Regulation in STEMM Mentoring Relationships
2/18/2025 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Instructors: Jasmine Smith & Jeremy Waisome
In Person: 302 Tigert Hall
STEMM mentors will be presented with presentations followed by guided activities on the following topics: (1) Awareness: Self- and Situational; and (2) Self-Regulation: Emotional and Behavioral. Register here.
Passport categories: Mentoring
Teaching Gen Z
2/19/2025 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Instructor: Michael Barber, Ph.D.
Online
Join us for a discussion about how the modern world has affected the latest cohort to enter our classrooms. We will discuss characteristics of Generation Z students and teaching strategies best suited to reach and teach them. Register here.
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching
Evaluate & Create AI: Assessing with AI
2/20/2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Instructors: Michael Barber, Ph.D. & Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
This workshop will support you as you rethink how assignments can be problem-based, engaging, and connect to real-world challenges. We will explore assignment structures like iSearch and FLUF tests that scaffold students to think more critically in an AI world. We will also explore innovative ways AI chatbots can deepen student learning. (Open to all; Part of the Harnessing AI FLC). Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Creative Assessment
Cafe Conversations: High Enrollment Classes
2/21/2025 | 12:00 – 12:45 PM
Instructor: Joslyn Ahlgren
Online
Discover a versatile assignment strategy that has enabled me to expand my online course enrollment from 25 to over 70 students without compromising quality. In this session, I’ll share how a combination of application-style assignments followed by reflective comparison to a key can be adapted to any subject, ensuring both effective learning and manageable grading. Register here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Student Focused Teaching
Assessing the Use of SDGs in the Classroom
2/24/2025 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Instructor: Natalie Coers, Ph.D.
In Person: 302 Tigert Hall
Explore assessment tools available to measure the impact of utilizing the SDGs in the classroom on student awareness, attitude, and behaviors. Register Here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Cultural Competencies, Experiential Learning, Global Learning, Mentoring, Student Focused Teaching
Getting Started with AI for Teaching & Learning: Crafting an AI Course Policy
2/26/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Michael Barber, Ph.D. & Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
This session empowers faculty to create AI policies that align with their teaching philosophy and uphold academic integrity. Participants will explore essential policy elements—defining appropriate AI use, maintaining originality, and fostering ethical scholarship—leaving with a framework to support responsible AI integration in coursework while preserving rigorous academic standards. Register Here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Ethics Basics for Educational Research
2/26/2025 | 12:50 PM – 1:50 PM
Instructor: Diba Mani, Ph.D.
Online
A basic introduction to Institutional Review Board (IRB) in educational research, covering ethical considerations for study methodologies, review types, and the UF IRB approval process. Register Here.
Passport categories: Evidence-Based Research, Research in Teaching and Learning (RiTL) Workshop, Teaching as Research
March
Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange
3/5/2025 | 1:55:00 PM – 2:55:00 PM
Instructors: Ana Porras & Carrie Martins
Online
Dr. Ana Porras from the Department of Biomedical Engineering will share about her experiences implementing virtual exchange, and we will explore resources to turn your class into a global classroom. Register Here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Cultural Competencies, Digital Literacy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Experiential Learning, Global Learning, Student Focused Teaching
AI Ethics, Academic Integrity, and Accessibility in your Course
3/6/2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Instructors: John Jordi & Margeaux Johnson
Online
This workshop will explore the ethical implications of AI for Education. We will discuss AI privacy and security, AI and Academic Integrity, AI and Accessibility. An emphasis will be placed on ways you can support academic integrity and accessibility with AI! (Open to all; Part of the Harnessing AI FLC). Register here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Creative Assessment, Tackling Tough Talks
12 Touchstones of Good Teaching
3/12/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructors: Michael Barber, Ph.D. & Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
Explore the 12 touchstones of good teaching, where we focus on strategies for being demanding, supportive, and intentional. Register here.
Passport categories: Active Learning, Cultural Competencies, Mentoring, Student Focused Teaching, Tackling Tough Talks
Getting Started with Pressbooks
3/12/2025 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Instructor: Ryan Rushing
In Person | 302 Tigert Hall
In this workshop, we will go over how Pressbooks can be used to create open course resources (OERs) that can be shared with others. We will discuss use cases such as creating an open textbook or using Pressbooks as a collaborative publishing tool for class assignments that results in an authentic and meaningful learning experience for your students. We will provide a basic overview of how to access the system and get started with publishing in Pressbooks. We recommend that you bring a laptop to this session to have a hands-on look at the Pressbooks platform. Register here.
Passport categories: Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching, Textbook Affordability
Getting Started with AI for Teaching & Learning: AI for Research & Writing
3/26/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
Discover how AI can enhance research and writing workflows.. We’ll explore popular AI tools, highlighting their features and functionality in academic and professional research. Explore ways to engage AI to efficiently manage citations, leverage AI-driven translation, and streamline information management to produce well-organized, high-quality content. Register here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
April
Insights into GatorEvals
4/1/2025 | 10:40:00 AM – 11:40:00 AM
Instructors: John Jordi, Ph.D. & Funke Dada
Online
Student evaluation data is a rich source of feedback from our students. This workshop will focus on aggregate level findings of the most common themes our students are talking about in our GatorEvals. Register here.
Passport categories: Student Focused Teaching
Teaching with HiPerGator
4/4/2025 | 11:45 PM – 12:45 PM
Instructor: Matt Gitzendanner
302 Tigert Hall/Hybrid
This workshop will cover resources that are available, introduce instructors to best practices for using HiPerGator in courses and provide time to answer questions about HiPerGator. Register here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Digital Literacy, Student Focused Teaching
Getting Started with AI for Teaching & Learning: AI for Assessment
4/9/2025 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker, Ed.D.
Online
Enhance assessment techniques with AI in this session focused on creating higher-order multiple-choice questions. We’ll cover best practices for designing effective questions, using AI to develop scenarios and case studies, and exploring AI’s role as a tutoring tool to support and personalize student learning experiences. Register here.
Passport categories: Artificial Intelligence Workshops, Creative Assessment