AI for Teaching Faculty Learning Community (FLC)
- This bimonthly hour-long FLC will be a collaborative space for faculty to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform teaching practices and support student success. This community will delve into practical AI tools, pedagogical applications, ethical considerations, and strategies for integrating AI into course design. Participants will engage in discussions, workshops, readings, and hands-on activities. The FLC will conclude with a showcase in the final week where members will present their projects, share insights into how they have incorporated AI into their teaching.
Backward Design: Crafting Courses for Optimal Learning
- This eight-hour, two-part workshop focuses on backward design using Dee Fink’s taxonomy to help educators create meaningful and impactful learning experiences. Working backwards from course learning outcomes, participants will explore how to align assessments and activities with them while integrating the human dimension of learning. Through interactive sessions and hands-on activities, attendees will redesign a course or module and receive peer and facilitator feedback to enhance their teaching practices
Equity-Minded Teaching Certificate Program
- This comprehensive 14-hour Zoom-based certificate program is designed to equip faculty with advanced strategies and evidence-based practices for creating inclusive and equitable learning environments. The curriculum focuses on three primary areas: course and syllabus design, inclusive teaching methodologies, and critical reflection for continuous improvement.
Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Certificate Program
- This eight-hour fully asynchronous online course introduces faculty to the basics of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and explores ways to use GenAI in their teaching practice. Modules include "Introduction to Generative AI and Prompt Engineering"; "Understanding Generative AI in Education"; "Implementing Generative AI in Coursework"; "GenAI Detection Strategies & Tools"; "GenAI Policy Development"; and "(Gen)AI and Academic Research."
Universal Design for Learning: DEI and Full Spectrum Access Certificate Program
- In this eight week, ten-hour, Zoom-based course we will learn the core principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), contrasted against the past one hundred years of normative design, and we will explore ways to incorporate UDL into our own courses and toward the full range of our educational offerings at CSUSB. UDL is a revolutionary approach to pedagogy which includes multiple pathways for how we teach, how students interact with the material and with one another, and ultimately how we assess our students’ progress in ways that truly reflect our core values as a diverse, egalitarian society. UDL promises full access, belonging and prosperity which benefits all students, including deeper considerations for disability, cultural/linguistic diversity, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma recovery and lifestyle differences. Faculty will learn core ideas of Universal Design for Learning as they apply to disability/neurodiversity, cultural-linguistic differences, diversity of gender and sexual orientation, and class/lifestyle differences. Faculty will learn how to maintain “full access,” which includes physical, social, cognitive, sensory, and cultural access. Faculty will work alone and together to form short and long-term goals for how to apply these ideas to pedagogy in our current courses and will work toward recommendations for UDL best practices in our various colleges and disciplines.
Teaching with Technology Certificate Program
- In this eight-hour fully asynchronous online certificate program, faculty gain knowledge of the effective pedagogical use of academic technologies by completing two core modules, Technology Integration Frameworks and Accessible Course Design, and six elective modules on advanced Canvas features and/or apps such as PlayPosit, VoiceThread, GoReact, Qwickly, and publisher content, as well as a short final reflection essay.