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Applications will open shortly for Mosaic faculty fellows, Generative AI faculty fellows, and campus accessibility liaisons. The deadline to apply is Friday, May 29th.
Check for updates on the Learning Technologies Faculty Fellow programs page.
The Learning Analytics Initiative recently welcomed 17 new fellows: These faculty will work within the Unizin Data Platform to enhance teaching and evaluate the impact of their pedagogical interventions. And the eXtended Reality Initiative welcomed 10 new fellows: These faculty will learn about extended reality technologies and explore implementing them in their courses.
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As a student and teaching assistant for 500+ undergraduates, Rylan Conaway has a front-row seat to how AI is impacting higher education. His perspective: focusing only on catching AI use misses the bigger issue: What kind of work are we asking students to do?
Eric Brinkman recently moderated "What Students Really Do With AI: An IU Student Panel" featuring five undergrads discussing how they feel about AI use at IU. Two timely themes emerged: widespread AI use for test prep and frustration with over-reliance on AI.
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Learn how an experienced lecturer in history, Dr. Tatiana Saburova, has transformed her intensive writing course, with a focus on methods to reduce students' writing anxiety, activate their autonomy, connect reading and writing assignments meaningfully, and incorporate multimodality.
There are seven short videos in the series: Learn how to use accessibility checker in Word and PowerPoint, export to accessible PDFs, and recognize common PDF accessibility issues.
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Visit the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, the Digital Gardner Initiative, IU eTexts, the Mosaic Initiative, Teaching.IU, XRI, ACI Fellows, and the IU Knowledge Base—not to mention your campus teaching and learning center—for more on topics related to this issue.
