Getting Started with Ascend: How to Create Classroom Conditions that Accelerate Learning & Equity

Monday, September 9, 2024, 2:30 PM - 3:30PM (1 hour)

Presenters: David Frantzreb, Partnership Manager, Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS)

Joy McDonald, Associate Director, Academic Technology Services, Rutgers-Newark

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This session will be offered remotely via Zoom.

Register here!

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Are you concerned about your students' belonging? Do you wish you could get real-time feedback from your students during the semester?

 

The Ascend Survey is the perfect solution because it helps college-level instructors collect real-time data on their students’ classroom experiences and learning conditions. When and where trends in student data emerge, the Ascend platform includes information about teaching strategies with a demonstrated correlation to improving student experiences in that area. Join us to learn more about the benefits of using the Ascend platform to understand the importance of the student experience and provide optimal learning conditions. We will be joined by David Frantzreb, Partnership Manager at PERTS (the developers of Ascend), and Joy McDonald, Associate Director, Academic Technology Services.

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Assignment Planning for the AI-Era

Wednesday, September 11, 2:30-3:50 PM (1 hour 20 minutes)

Presenters: Richard Anderson, Director, Virtual Worlds, Game Research and Immersive Design
Suparna Sinha, Instructional Designer, Teaching and Learning with Technology

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This session will be offered remotely via Zoom.

Register: https://go.rutgers.edu/y0v6zsi6 

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Are you interested in utilizing AI this semester?

Wondering how to align your course learning outcomes with possible usage of AI?

Join us for this SMARTeaching workshop to think through the impact of AI on your course design, especially your assignments. Suparna Sinha (OUES) and Rick Anderson (GRID) will provide examples of assignments enriched by AI and provide guidelines for determining which assignments are better off left AI-free. By the end of the workshop, you will have practical tools to help you update your course plans for the AI-era.​​​​

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Co-Design a Classroom Policy on Generative AI with Your Learners

Wednesday, October 2, 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM (1 hour 20 minutes)

Presenters: Eliza Blau, Instructional Design and Technology Specialist, SAS-NB Office of Undergraduate Education, Teaching and Learning

Pauline Carpenter, Instructional Design and Technology Specialist, SAS-NB Office of Undergraduate Education, Teaching and Learning

 

This session will be offered remotely via Zoom. 

Register: https://go.rutgers.edu/az07effe

 

Co-designing a classroom policy about text generative AI with students actively engages them in the learning process, and, critically, it ensures their voices and concerns are better represented, enhances transparency around academic integrity, and creates student buy-in to abide by the stated policy. In this workshop, attendees grappled with how we might handle the shifting AI technological landscape using design justice as a guiding framework. Infusing AI technologies in our active learning strategies can assist learning in equitable ways; however, we must continuously critically evaluate how approaches to text generating AI can disadvantage those traditionally excluded and historically minoritized in higher education (Addy, et. al., 2023). Participants explore and share their own instructional approaches to AI technologies, analyze equitable approaches to AI technologies using a design justice lens, and consider how we can co-design an AI classroom policy with learners that works better for everyone.

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Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Monday, November 4, 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM (1 hour 20 minutes)

Presenter: Chris Drue, OTEAR 

 

This session will be offered remotely via Zoom. 

Register: https://go.rutgers.edu/5o8kro1q

  

Craft a standout Teaching Portfolio in our interactive workshop. A robust portfolio effectively communicates your teaching responsibilities, philosophy, goals, and achievements. In this session, you will learn how to write an engaging teaching philosophy, compile compelling evidence of your teaching success, and highlight your professional growth and development as a teacher. We will also examine different teaching portfolio models and explore methods for presenting your teaching experience and responsibilities. 

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Getting Started with Ascend: How to Create Classroom Conditions that Accelerate Learning & Equity

Monday, November 18, 2024 10 AM - 11AM (1 hour)

​Presenters: 

David Frantzreb, Partnership Manager, Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS)

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This session will be offered remotely via Zoom.

Register Here!

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Are you concerned about your students' belonging? Do you wish you could get real-time feedback from your students during the semester?

 

The Ascend Survey is the perfect solution because it helps college-level instructors collect real-time data on their students’ classroom experiences and learning conditions. When and where trends in student data emerge, the Ascend platform includes information about teaching strategies with a demonstrated correlation to improving student experiences in that area. Join us to learn more about the benefits of using the Ascend platform to understand the importance of the student experience and provide optimal learning conditions. We will be joined by David Frantzreb, Partnership Manager at PERTS (the developers of Ascend), and Joy McDonald, Associate Director, Academic Technology Services.

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Faculty Panel:

• Theresa Brightman, Social Work, School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

• Jeremy Morgan, Rutgers Business School

• Pilar Larroulet Philippi, School of Criminal Justice

• Courtney Sobers, Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

• Lance Thurner, History, School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

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Administrators:

• Alessandra Sperling

• Joy McDonald

 

The agenda for this workshop is:

 

1. What, Why, How of Ascend

2. Previewing the Survey

3. Introducing Ascend to Students

4. Getting Started

5. Q & A

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