FPDi Current Workshops

Do you want to learn how you can use Alternative Assessment to assess your students' knowledge and understanding of course concepts and encourage students to learn to apply the knowledge? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about the benefits and strategies of using Alternative Assessment and how those can be used to assess your students both in the traditional classroom as well as in the virtual classroom.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Do you want to learn more about how to incorporate Alternative Assessments into your classroom? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about specific alternative assessment strategies and ways that you can structure them in both the traditional and virtual classrooms. You will also explore the advantages and challenges of these forms of assessment as well as their connection to Active and Collaborative Learning.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Are you wanting to learn more about preventing and reporting academic misconduct? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about the types of academic misconduct, the importance of reporting, common misunderstandings surrounding the process, and how the Student Conduct Hearing Board meets, deliberates, and makes decisions. You will learn how to collect evidence and report academic misconduct in your own class. This workshop will also provide tips and strategies to promote academic integrity.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

What increases student academic performance, ownership of learning, supportive behavior, and persistence? Having a positive classroom environment! In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to create a positive classroom climate by promoting student belonging, engagement, and connection. You will also learn strategies to address and manage barriers and common hurdles in creating a welcoming space in both the traditional and virtual classroom.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

A two-week fully online self paced workshop designed to take an in-depth look at critical thinking skills and dispositions and address some of the problems that get in the way of our efforts to teach critical thinking skills effectively.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Diversity is the first module of a three-part series surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This module is designed to take an in-depth look at the makeup of the student body, what experiences students face in the classroom, and how diversity can be embedded in curriculum. Diversity is not separation but a look at the individual and an awareness of people from every walk of life and the intersections of people that create varying identities. Understanding who is in the classroom is the first step in broadening conversations, enhancing lessons, and facilitating growth for students, faculty, staff, the college, and surrounding communities. This and subsequent modules will follow the multicultural excellence theory by Sue and Sue (2003) which includes Awareness (mindfulness), Knowledge (learning), Skills (competencies), and Social Action (activism) within the classroom using Active and Collaborative Learning.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Equity is the second module in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series. This module will take what has been learned in the Diversity module and add the Equity component. After an understanding of who is in the room a glance into how epistemic resources can be unearthed and shared. When varying cultural norms, values and ways of thought are overlooked in the classroom student success can decrease. In this module self-reflections on possible implicit inequalities and thematic insights that inform teaching practices. This module will discuss how being an active listener can help enhance learning of how a student’s personal reality does not always coincide with their intellectual knowledge. Educators can lessen acculturative stress by learning to become an equitable change agent in students' lives.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Inclusion is the third module in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion series. This module will integrate what has been learned in the Diversity and Equity modules and add the Inclusion component. This culminating module will touch on divisive cultural ideologies, ethical demands and requirements, and inclusive strategies that will help students stay and succeed. This module will focus on active and collaborative teaching strategies that will actively facilitate inclusion and a sense of community in the classroom.

Note: You must complete Diversity Level 2 Workshop before you can register for this workshop.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

You've heard it often enough: ChatGPT is a game-changer. But how do we play the game when no one seems to know its rules? This session covers AI's potential, its limitations, and different strategies that can be used to promote authentic learning in today's classroom.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Mary Lia Reiter and Deb Bertsch are at the cutting edge when it comes to their knowledge of AI and student learning. Please come to our workshop, where they will informally share their experiences embedding AI into their curriculum. They will discuss the ways they use AI in their courses, what your observations have been—what worked, what was problematic--and how students reacted to those activities.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

This workshop is intended for faculty who have participated in live online meetings, but would like to improve their methods for meeting with students synchronously. The first half of this workshop will focus on best practices/pedagogical strategies and the second half will offer participants step-by-step training on how to use the features of Zoom.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.

Research is unequivocal; the best predictor of student success in online courses is their level of engagement. When students can feel a sense of ownership in their learning, contribute and connect with other students, and perceive that their instructor is invested and supportive of their efforts, they do better than when they are passive and expected to simply replicate static information being presented to them. This workshop focuses on strategies that will anchor students in your online course and engage them in the experience active and authentic learning.

All sessions below are live online using Zoom. You can register by signing up on CougarConnect. The day before your training, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join the session.