Welcome

Welcome to the Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL). PETAL is designed to disseminate, advance, and recognize innovative teaching and learning across UM’s multiple campuses. PETAL offers signature programs, expert speaker events, tailored services, rich resource materials, and awards designed to enhance the teaching environment at University of Miami.

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What Faculty Are Saying about PETAL

“It’s so great to be in a room with other faculty from many different disciplines with many different class sizes and class styles and come together and share best practices for how we teach our students.”

- Leslie Knecht

“Whenever I have the questions, I know which door I will knock, because PETAL’s door is actually the door that is always open.”

- Dina Moulioukova

“And the reality is that the experience I’ve had up to now shows that students do like it, that my skepticism was not well-founded and that this [PBL] is something that has a lot of potential in terms of the pedagogy and it’s helping me actually reformulate the content of the lecture.”

- Esteban Petruzzello

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Teaching with AI Course for UM Faculty

New asynchronous course for UM faculty: Teaching with AI: Seizing Opportunities and Navigating Challenges .

This self-paced course is designed to equip faculty with essential knowledge and practical tools for integrating generative AI into educational settings. The course is facilitated on Blackboard Learn Ultra, ensuring a comprehensive and user-friendly learning experience.

Participants who complete the course will receive a Teaching with AI certificate. Additionally, the first few participants to complete the course will receive a copy of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

by Ethan Mollick.

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