Dates: June 4 — In Person
June 5 — Fully Online
June 5 — Fully Online
Location: June 4 — University Hall & The ADP Center for Learning Technologies
ITDS invites faculty to submit a proposal to present at this year’s Summer Institute conference. We hope you will join us!
2024 Summer Institute for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Instructional Technology and Design Services (ITDS) invites you to our 2024 Summer Institute for Teaching, Learning and Technology. This faculty development event will kick off with keynote speaker Dr. C. Edward Watson, an Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
Join your Montclair colleagues to collectively envision and prepare for the pedagogical opportunities that the future holds through the use of new education technologies and teaching strategies. This year’s theme embraces our teaching community and will create a space to discuss the shared experiences, opportunities, and challenges we face together as educators. Together, we will discuss what the future of education might look like and ways to strive for teaching excellence. Each day will include a variety of presentations and workshops to inspire, support and engage you.
Call for Proposals
Conference Theme: Forward Together
Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2024
Submission Tracks
- Learning Design: Showcase the finest learning experiences you’ve created in your online or physical classroom. What technologies or learning strategies helped create a memorable experience for your students? This track includes shifting course modalities, innovative design and facilitation strategies; flipping the classroom; adaptive learning; social annotation; collaboration; problem-based learning; project-based learning, teamwork, peer-learning, content creation, and more.
- Innovation and Emerging Technology: Integrating innovative and emerging technologies effectively into learning environments often requires patience and perseverance to achieve successful implementation of those tools. This track provides an opportunity for you to showcase the challenges you overcame, while also focusing on how you were able to successfully forge innovative learning experiences for your students. Examples might include the application of artificial intelligence, the incorporation of gamification, the use of extended reality (AR/VR), simulations, fostering self-directed and situational learning, providing real-world experiences, devising creative feedback mechanisms, and other novel applications of trending technologies or platforms.
- Student Belonging and Inclusion: Building a classroom community requires thoughtful, intentional steps to create a supportive learning environment. How are you creating community in your classroom? Explain the actions, big or small, which have brought your students together and fostered a sense of belonging. This track includes mindfulness strategies, creative ways to provide accommodations; differentiation; intentional community building; impactful strategies for diverse classrooms; culturally responsive teaching, universal design for learning and more.
Keynote Presentation by Dr. C. Edward Watson: Pedagogical Practice in the New Era of AI
Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others, have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create, and this evolution is clearly apparent on college campuses. As early as January 2023, approximately 9 out of 10 college students reported using ChatGPT, and that number, as well as student competency with AI, has only grown since then. Throughout the academic year, AI will be present in our classrooms, and there are a range of opportunities and challenges as a result. Drawing from the presenter’s new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press), this keynote is designed to provide participants with clear guidance as they prepare for the coming semester. After a brief overview of the AI landscape, this session will shift to provide clear recommendations for pedagogical and classroom practice, including policy decisions, syllabus statements, grading, and academic integrity. Assignment design will be a hallmark of this keynote, and attendees can anticipate a discussion of if, when, and how we might embrace AI to achieve the learning goals of our course. Examples will be provided throughout.
Dr. C. Edward Watson is the Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Prior to joining AAC&U, Dr. Watson was the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia (UGA) where he led university efforts associated with faculty development, TA development, learning technologies, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He continues to serve as a Fellow in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at UGA and recently stepped down after more than a decade as the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. His most recent book is Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Dr. Watson has been quoted in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Campus Technology, EdSurge, Consumer Reports, UK Financial Times, and University Business Magazine and by the AP, CNN and NPR regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.
Conference Agenda
Stay tuned for the full agenda in the coming weeks!
For a view of the 2023 agenda and a list of presenters, please visit our Past Summer Institutes page.