Who: The events will bring together a round table of three teaching experts: Isis Artze-Vega, vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, in Florida; Regan A.R. Gurung, associate vice provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University; and Viji Sathy, associate dean of evaluation and assessment in the office of undergraduate education in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. They’ll be joined by Chronicle reporters Beth McMurtrie and Beckie Supiano.
What: A four-part series of interactive virtual events for instructors and the administrators who support them. We plan to cover the changing student/professor dynamic, how to foster motivation and engagement, and the future of grading and assessment, respectively, in our first three sessions. While all of the sessions will be interactive, the last one will be built entirely around questions from our audience.
When: The final Fridays of January to April at 2 p.m., Eastern time. That’s January 28, February 25, March 25, and April 29.
Where: Discussions will be on Zoom; sign up here. And we plan to keep the conversation going in the newsletter, too.
Why: To help professors think through common challenges, like expanding student engagement and fine-tuning grading and assessment, and to provide a sense of community along the way.