This three-part, discussion-based workshop series will help you redesign parts of your course with AI in mind. Together, we will explore when and how to incorporate AI, when to limit it, and how to help students use it responsibly. Across the sessions, you will begin to shape a revised course outline that reflects intentional, thoughtful integration of AI in teaching and learning.

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request access services if needed.

Faculty from RIT’s 2025 ActiveLearn Institutes invite you to an interactive showcase of teaching innovation. Faculty presenters will share redesigned lessons, active learning strategies, and early evidence of student impact from their summer projects.

Explore hands-on demonstrations, engage in short conversations with presenters, and gather practical ideas you can bring to your own courses. Celebrate the creativity and collaboration driving RIT’s active learning community forward.

This session is intended for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants. Access Services has been requested.

NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool that can significantly benefit faculty by streamlining research and lesson planning. NotebookLM allows users to upload various sources and then uses AI to summarize key information, answer questions based on the uploaded content, and even generate new content like study guides or quizzes. This tool is ideal for departments working together on curriculum development or research projects. By automating time-consuming tasks, NotebookLM empowers educators to focus more on what matters most: their students.

This session is being jointly offered by Information and Technology Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning, and led by RIT's implementation vendor. Bring your technical questions with you! 

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request access services if needed.

Sometimes, small changes to our teaching practices can have a profound effect on student learning and sense of belonging. In this Teachers on Teaching session, we will share several easy-to-implement activities and instructional practices designed to promote engagement, support diverse learners, and create a more inclusive classroom climate. Participants will leave with concrete strategies and tools that can be adapted for their own classroom.

This event is part of the Teachers on Teaching program, and is intended for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants. Participants should request access services if needed.

In the first half of this session, participants will explore the lessons that magic offers about breaking the ice, capturing attention, sustaining engagement, and creating meaningful learning moments in the classroom. Through demonstrations and discussion, participants will consider concrete ways to incorporate these strategies into their own courses. The second-half presentation utilizes a hands-on card-sorting exercise to demonstrate that racial and other demographic categories are social constructions, not objective truths.   Participants will also use different card games to investigate how social hierarchy is a product of systemic "rules" rather than inherent physical traits.

What happens when pedagogical theory collides with real-world teaching dilemmas—and a panel of student judges? In this interactive workshop, faculty will play a Cards Against Humanity–style game in which they respond to everyday classroom scenarios using a mix of pedagogical strategies, policies, and instincts. Participants must decide whether to play a “good” solution, a “bad” solution, or something strategically in between, depending on how they think a panel of student judges will respond and award points. The 90-minute session uses humor and low-stakes competition to surface serious conversations about teaching values, student expectations, and the hidden logics behind our instructional choices.

Ashish Agrawal, Dean’s Office, CET; and Lucio Salles De Salles, Department of CET/EMS, CET

This teaching circle invites RIT faculty to explore the critical role of sustainability in developing the identity of modern engineers. As the demands of society shift, equipping our students with a sustainable mindset is more crucial than ever.

 Our goal: To collaboratively identify, adapt, and assess high-impact teaching practices that effectively expose engineering students—from freshmen to seniors—to sustainability concepts. This circle aims to disseminate the work completed through the NSF-funded grant "Influence of Sustainability-Focused Course Interventions on Students' Engineering Identity Development".

 What to expect: This is an action-oriented group where participants serve as co-explorers. Each meeting will center on the practical exchange of curriculum materials, with facilitators and interested participants sharing real-world, sustainability-related class activities and exercises currently used in their courses. As researchers involved in the NSF project, we will share our findings—which are based on analyses of student interviews and written reflections—to highlight how students respond to sustainability concepts and how the interventions specifically affect their professional development and engineering mindset

 Participants will gain access to a collection of sustainability activities and a direct understanding of the psychological and professional impact of these topics on student learning. A set of refined, evidence-based teaching strategies is the circle’s intended deliverable

 We will meet on-campus (location TBA) approximately every other Tuesday,12:00-1:00 p.m. (lunch will be provided), on the following five dates: Jan 27, Feb 10, Feb 24, March 24, and April 14. If you are interested in joining this circle, email Lucio Salles De Salles.

Explore the redesigned myCourses user experience and learn how to manage course materials with greater ease and efficiency. This session highlights new features that streamline content organization and promote student engagement. Through interactive demonstrations and guided walkthroughs, instructors will build confidence in navigating the updated layout and leveraging intuitive tools to create a more modern, accessible learning environment.

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request access services if needed.

Explore the redesigned myCourses user experience and learn how to manage course materials with greater ease and efficiency. This session highlights new features that streamline content organization and promote student engagement. Through interactive demonstrations and guided walkthroughs, instructors will build confidence in navigating the updated layout and leveraging intuitive tools to create a more modern, accessible learning environment.

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request access services if needed.