Faculty Showcase 2023

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 2023 Faculty Showcase

🕘  November 3, 2023, 9AM-3:30PM  📍 Lakeside Village Expo Center

UM's Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL) is delighted to announce the ninth annual Faculty Showcase. The Faculty Showcase is the University of Miami’s teaching and learning conference—an annual gathering where faculty share, network, and discover the ways in which their colleagues are enriching student experiences through innovative pedagogies and learning technologies. Led by faculty for faculty, this conference aims to support faculty development and enhance student learning.

The event will take place at the Lakeside Village Expo Center on Friday, November 3 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

 

 

Overview

🚗  Parking and Transport: Parking is available for UM faculty and staff who have a valid parking pass for the Coral Gables campus. Metered parking is available in the Pavia parking garage (view campus map).

🍽  Food: Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.

👥  Network and Learn: Prepare to interact with fellow faculty on topics related to teaching and learning throughout the Showcase!

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Agenda

View the 2023 Showcase Schedule

Time Program
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Welcome
9:45 a.m.- 10:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Betsy Barre
10:55 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Learning Circles Session 1
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Learning Circles Session 2
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Teaching in the Age of AI: UM Faculty Panel
2:45 p.m.- 2:55 p.m. Closing Remarks
2:55 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Networking (Cafecito and Pastelitos)

Sessions Overview

📢 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Betsy Barre

AI and the Future of Learning: Key Questions for the Academy

Headshot of keynote speaker Dr. Betsy Barre

Session Description

AI's emergence prompts essential, perhaps even existential, questions for higher education. Given AI’s potential to shift how humans teach, learn, and think, these questions extend well beyond our understandable anxieties about academic integrity. In this talk, Dr. Betsy Barre, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University, will discuss the need to rethink our educational objectives; the potential of AI to both advance and complicate inclusive pedagogy; and why now, more than ever, interdisciplinary collaboration is non-negotiable. Join us as we unpack these complex questions and begin to chart a future that is aligned with our shared values.

Biography

Dr. Betsy Barre serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University, a role she has held since 2018. Prior to this, she made significant contributions at Rice University, transitioning from a Lecturer in the Program for Writing and Communication to roles of increasing responsibility within their Center for Teaching Excellence, culminating as its Associate Director. Earlier in her career, Dr. Barre held faculty positions in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College and in Islamic Studies at Lake Forest College. 

Dr. Barre is a recognized voice in higher education. She has penned articles, delivered talks, and been interviewed by numerous media outlets on subjects ranging from student evaluations of teaching and workload to the challenges of emergency remote teaching and the implications of artificial intelligence for higher education.

💬 Learning Circles

Learning Circles are designed for small group discussions of specialized topics, with the presenter leading the discussion. Several roundtable discussions happen concurrently, where presenters will lead three 30-minute repeat discussions, enabling attendees to visit multiple tables. There will be two sessions of Learning Circles with an opportunity for participants to visit a total of four tables. 

🤖 Teaching in the Age of AI: UM Faculty Panel

In this panel, faculty across various disciplines at UM will discuss innovative strategies and their experiences in integrating AI into the classroom. Panelists will discuss their successes, challenges, student impact, and recommendations for faculty wishing to implement this technology within their courses.

 Presenters

  • Coming Soon! 

🤝 Networking: Cafecito and Pastelitos

Stay to enjoy some Cuban coffee and pastries as you continue to interact with colleagues and make connections!

Call for Learning Circle Presenters!


We invite the University of Miami teaching community to submit proposals for 30-minute sessions (including Q&A) as part of our Learning Circles session.

In the past year, faculty across the university have been enhancing their course through methods such as:

  • Leveraging artificial intelligence in the design of course content and activities
  • Integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) teaching practices
  • Facilitating virtual exchanges using the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) framework
  • Using alternative forms of assessment
  • Implementing experiential learning through labs, internships, capstones, hands-on activities, etc.

We invite faculty to submit proposals about these topics or other ways they use new teaching practices to improve the student experience and learning outcomes. Deadline to apply is Friday, September 29.

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