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FALL 2024 FLEX Workshops from MOST

Each semester MOST offers a series of workshops starting during Flex week and continuing throughout the semester. 

Online Course Checkup: Preparing for Your Faculty Evaluations

Kim Lacher  Tasha Frankie
Are you being evaluated soon for your online course? Are you evaluating a peer's online course? Our MOST Course Check Up is a helpful tool to assess and highlight online course elements for the evaluation process.  We will give you time to identify relevant examples from your own course that you can use in the course walkthrough with your evaluator.

A Conversation About AI in Higher Education

Jason Kalchik  Christina Crosby
Bring your concerns, questions, and successes with AI as we engage in a critical exploration of the rapidly changing educational landscape. This interactive workshop, designed for faculty across all disciplines, offers a collaborative space to both examine the benefits of AI and address its potential drawbacks. Through open discussion and sharing of experiences—whether you’re new to AI or already utilizing it—our facilitators will model practical strategies for incorporating AI in teaching. We’ll confront the complexities of this technology, weighing its impact on pedagogy and ethics, and leave with a deeper, nuanced understanding of AI's role in education.

Highlighting "Invisible Work" for In-Person Course Evaluations

Christina Crosby  Mariam Kushkaki
Come explore ways to prepare for upcoming evaluations using MOST’s tools and resources. We’ll discuss methods for bolstering and highlighting your teaching practices that may not be visible during an observation but still relate to evaluation parameters. This workshop is open to all instructional faculty.

  • Christina Crosby (PSYC) & Mariam Kushkaki (ENGL)
  • Thurs., Oct. 17 @ 2:30p - 3:30p
  • LRC/LOFT 432
  • Flex #25751

From Struggle to Strength: Embedding Reading Support for Students

Jason Kalchik
Let’s explore ways to level up your students' confidence and skills in reading. This session will model ways to support deep reading in a digital world, share personal reading challenges to demystify the process, and equip students with adaptable active reading strategies. Join us to transform reading from a struggle to a strength in your classroom.

  • Jason Kalchik (ENGL)
  • Tues., Oct. 22 @ 1p - 2p
  • LRC/LOFT 435
  • Flex #25752

Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Course Accessibility

Kim Lacher  Cara Smulevitz
Do you ever get overwhelmed when you use the accessibility checker on Canvas? AI can help! Join us in this interactive workshop to explore how we can utilize AI to make accessibility improvements easier and faster. And a bonus: you 'll get a chance to practice creating accessible images and documents to ensure that all of our students can succeed.

  • Kim Lacher (ENGL) & Cara Smulevitz (ARTF)
  • Fri., Oct. 25, @ 11a - 12p
  • Zoom ID: 890 871 18401
  • Flex #25753