Inspiring Teaching Excellence
Submit your proposal now for Teaching Renewal Week 2026
Teaching Renewal Week (Jan 12–16, 2026) is MU’s annual virtual conference for all MU educators: faculty, graduate instructors, and instructional support staff. Held each January, TRW fosters campus-wide collaboration and showcases evidence-based teaching practices. The event features presentations on key teaching topics, opportunities for idea exchange, and access to valuable programs and resources.
Show-Me AI
Invitations are open to faculty, instructors and students interested in helping test the new tool’s capabilities.
Show-Me AI uses premium versions of several large language models to aid pilot users with course development and guidance for coursework completion.
Teaching support and efficiency:
- Streamline course content development and lesson planning.
- Draft emails, posts or other messages for class communication.
- Create custom AI assistants that can locate course documents for students, answer course content questions, offer assignment feedback, provide practice test questions, facilitate role-playing scenarios and more.
Learning assistance and enhancement:
- Gain real-world experience using generative AI.
- Draft emails, posts or other messages.
- Receive personalized course assistance through a custom AI assistant that’s always available.
Oct. 17, 2025
Featured in the Columbia Missourian: “GalactiVote: Government in Action!”
In-class gaming furthers learning in American Government courses.
Aug. 28, 2024
AI and the Learning Environment
In the spring 2024 semester, the Provost charged tri-chairs of an “Artificial Intelligence and the Learning Environment Taskforce” to create a working group to research and make recommendations on the following three areas: 1) pedagogy, 2) learning, and 3) ethics. Tori Mondelli (Director, Teaching for Learning Center), Enid Schatz (Associate Dean, Graduate School), and Ben Trachtenberg (Director, Office of Academic Integrity), served as tri-chairs. They worked with the Office of the Provost and Faculty Council to identify potential members. AI and the Learning Environment Taskforce Report & Resources In June 2024, the taskforce submitted a report with recommendations to the…
July 26, 2024
Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools
This collaborative Google Doc was created by Faculty Developer Lance Eaton and offers over 100 sample syllabus statements which you can sort by discipline and rights for reuse. It is a wonderful resource to help every educator share ideas on how to communicate clearly with students on this important teaching and learning topic. Share yours or borrow one that fits your needs for fall semester!