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Welcome to the Teaching and Learning Series Archives, a dynamic collection shaped by faculty interests and grounded in proven research. Each session in the series centers on collaborative problem-solving, drawing on the collective expertise of our community. Explore innovative strategies and evidence-based practices to foster excellence in teaching and student learning.

2024-25 Series Archive

“This is a systemic problem—and yet professorsoften feel like they have to solve it allon their own.”

-participant at the Second Ursinus Colloquium on Liberal Education, referring to student underpreparedness for college-level reading

Schedules

T&L Fall Series, 2024-25: “Student (dis)Engagement”	T&L Spring Series, 2024-25: “Dealing with A.I.”
Times & places: noon—12:50 p.m., Wednesdays Patterson Dining Room or Maxfield Felton & Lambert: Relationship-Rich Education (JHUP, 2020)	Times & places: 4-5 p.m., Wednesdays Bevens Music Room Bowen & Watson: Teaching with AI (JHUP, 2024)

Sept 4: Pt 1: Panel: “On Student (dis)Engagement” Discuss “How to Solve the Student Disengagement Crisis” (Chronicle, 2022)	Jan 22: Pt 1: Panel: “On Dealing with A.I.” Discuss Mollick & Mollick’s “Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies inClassrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts” (2023)

Sept 18: Pt 2: “Setting the Table” Discuss Felton & Lambert introduction and chapters 1 & 2 (pgs. 1-57)	Feb 5: Pt 2: “Possible AI Futures” Discuss “Thinking with AI” (Bowen & Watson pgs. 1-77)

Oct 2: Pt 3: “Making Connections in the Classroom” Discuss Felton & Lambert chapters 3 & 4 (pgs. 58-98)	Feb 26: Pt 3: “AI in the Classroom” Discuss “Teaching with AI” (Bowen & Watson pgs. 81-158)

Oct 30: Pt 4: “Making Connections through Mentoring” Discuss Felton & Lambert chapters 5 & 6 and postscript (pgs. 99-165) and complete exit survey	March 12: Pt 4: “Action Steps for AI” Discuss “Learning with AI” (Bowen & Watson pgs. 161-238) and complete exit survey
	March 19: Location: Alphin Board Room Pt 5: “Action Plans Workshop” Participants prepare 3-5 ways that they may incorporate the series's content into classroom instruction, syllabus policy, and/or assignment design—each idea with a paragraph or so of description, akin to an abstract. We will share all ideas, discuss, and troubleshoot, also creating an in-house database of AI implementation practices for future references.