To integrate or not to integrate AI components in the classroom. This is the question! Listen to Towson University Department of Music faculty Terry Ewell and Luis Engelke offer differing perspectives and considerations for permitting students the use of AI for course assignments in their online Ethical Issues and Perspectives in Music course sections. Also, learn about students' perspectives toward using AI for course assignments, when permitted in the course.

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Guest Professor Montana McCormick in the Department of Secondary Middle Education talks about the challenges in permanently shifting her practice online after years as an accomplished classroom practitioner with the aim of achieving similar success in another modality.

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It can be difficult to know where to start in making course content accessible. Guests, Brian Williams TU Digital Accessibility Analyst, Tricia Halstead, Manager of Blackboard Administration along with host Teresa Valais, FACET Sr. Instructional Designer share accessibility tips and tricks to ensure the design of Blackboard courses and materials and assignments are as accessible as possible to as many different people as possible from the start.  

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Guests Samuel Collins, Professor of Anthropology and Kelly Elkins Professor in Chemistry, and host Teresa Valais talk about ways AI is resetting how we learn and work and the implications on teaching & learning as well as the future of work.

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Guest Dr. Katherine Holman, Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education, shares the process she incorporates to plan and execute engaging synchronous learning. She talks about ways she employs active learning strategies and innovative techniques to foster student engagement and learning. Tap into this episode to learn ways to build and cultivate a vibrant online learning community.

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Guests Samuel Collins, Professor of Anthropology, Jennifer Potter, Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies, and Kelly Elkins Professor of Chemistry, talk about Faculty Mentoring at Towson University. These FACET Fellows share ways FACET supports faculty professional growth and how to leverage FACET Fellows and other faculty campus resources to forward your scholarship, teaching, research, and service efforts.

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Guest Dr. Cody Sandifer, FACET Teaching Fellow and Professor of Science Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences along with FACET Instructional Designer, Teresa Valais, talk about ways they support Towson University faculty and provide feedback in course design, classroom practice, and online facilitation.

Guests Dr. Patricia Westerman, Assistant Provost for the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson, and Sushma Kumble, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, discuss ways new faculty at Towson University are supported. Tap into this episode to hear steps along Sushma’s journey from new faculty to now in her fifth year on the tenure track and takeaway advice she offers new faculty on how to leverage available faculty resources to grow professionally and expand your network.

Faculty guests Laura Hicken, Chair of the Faculty Research Conference Planning Committee, and Kelly Elkins, FACET Scholarship fellow, talk about ways faculty can advance their scholarship and research at Towson University. FACET events like the upcoming Faculty Research Conference and the Faculty Writing Space, available web-based scholarship resources and collaboration opportunities with colleagues across disciplines are discussed. Listeners can take away how to leverage collaboration with research peers and tips for planning actionable research tasks to meet research goals.

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Listening to learn. Samuel Clevenger, Department of Kinesiology Assistant Professor, talks about his experience incorporating podcasts for teaching, learning, and alternative assessment. Learn ways students interact with podcasts, lessons learned and getting started advice he shares for faculty.

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