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Academic HIPs 101
This session offers a foundational overview of High-Impact Practices using the AAC&U framework and MU’s approach to implementation and tracking. Participants learn how to design or adapt courses to meet HIPs criteria with academic rigor and intentionality, and identify practical next steps for developing HIPs-designated courses.
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Course Design/Redesign , High Impact Practices
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AI Assistants in the Walled Garden
AI Assistants in the Walled Garden explains how generative AI assistants can support teaching and learning in secure, controlled academic environments
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Teaching with AI , Teaching with Technology
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AI on Campus: Tools, Resources, and Support for Teaching and Learning
This session offers an overview of AI tools, policies, and teaching resources available to support instructors across campus. Presenters share updates on current initiatives, responsible use guidelines, and examples of effective classroom applications, highlighting how AI can be used to enhance teaching and learning at Mizzou.
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AI Resources for Students , Campus Resources
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AI Promptathon – Microsoft CoPilot Chat
This hands-on session introduces practical strategies for using Microsoft Copilot Chat through effective prompt writing and everyday workflows. Participants gain confidence using AI to boost productivity, ask better questions, and integrate AI tools into their daily work without requiring technical expertise.
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Active Learning , AI Resources for Students , Campus Resources
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AI Syllabus Statement Workshop
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AI Resources for Students , Teaching with AI
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AI2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide
This report highlights key trends in how colleges and universities are adopting AI, including strategy, teaching, workforce training, and emerging gaps in access and resources.
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Teaching with AI
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Aligning Faculty-Mentored Independent Research and Creative Scholarship Experiences With the RI Designation Across Disciplines
This session explores discipline-spanning models for aligning faculty-mentored independent research and creative scholarship with MU’s Research Intensive course designation. Presenters share cohort-based and department-approved approaches that support quality research experiences, peer learning, and administrative efficiency while advancing high-impact practices across curricula.
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Course Design/Redesign , High Impact Practices
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Better by Design: Elevating Engagement in Online Learning
This panel session highlights how Mizzou faculty redesigned online courses to increase engagement and collaboration across disciplines. Presenters share practical design strategies, tools, and support resources, including collaborative presentations, VoiceThread, and gamified learning paths, to enhance student interaction in online learning environments.
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Active Learning , Course Design/Redesign
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Books
A curated selection of books to support effective teaching, instructional strategies, and professional growth.
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Bring Your Own Brains: Keeping Student Cognitive Effort High When Using AI
This session explores practical strategies for maintaining high levels of student cognitive engagement when using AI in learning activities. Participants examine research on cognitive offloading and metacognitive prompting and experiment with interactive, gamified approaches that position AI as a learning partner rather than a replacement for critical thinking.
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Active Learning , AI Resources for Students
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Campus Resources
This page offers a collection of campus resources to support teaching, learning, and faculty professional development at Mizzou.
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Campus Resources
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Celebration of Teaching 2023 – Keynote Presentation
Academic Integrity in the 21st Century: Culture, Pedagogy & Assessment
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AI Resources for Students , Pedagogy , Teaching with AI
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Celebration of Teaching 2024 – Featured Presentation
Champion’s Playbook: Preparing Programs for HLC Accreditation Success
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Course Design/Redesign , Evidence-based practices
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Celebration of Teaching 2025 – Keynote Presentation
Bandwidth Tax of Uncertainty: Reclamation in Community
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Accessibility , Course Design/Redesign
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Conferences
Discover a selection of leading conferences dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in higher education. From discipline-specific strategies to global conversations on pedagogy and scholarship, these events offer valuable opportunities for professional development, collaboration, and innovation in teaching practice.
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Conferences
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Early Peek into Mizzou’s Walled Garden, Show-Me AI, and Learn What the Secure AI Tool Can Do for your Faculty and Students
This session introduces Show-Me AI, Mizzou’s secure, walled-garden AI tool designed to support teaching, course development, and everyday academic tasks. Participants explore key features, faculty use cases, and opportunities for integrating AI into assignments and projects while learning about access timelines and future applications.
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AI Resources for Students , Campus Resources , Pedagogy
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Facilitating and assessing student engagement in the classroom
This article from the University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Teaching & Learning explores how to promote and assess student engagement in the classroom. It covers the dimensions of engagement—cognitive, behavioral, and affective—and offers practical strategies for active learning and other teaching practices.
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Student Engagement
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From Gloom to Bloom: Four Research-Based Strategies to Foster Emotional Well-Being and Engagement
This interactive session introduces four research-based strategies to support emotional well-being and engagement in college classrooms. Drawing on social-emotional learning, active pedagogy, and prosocial practices, the session offers practical tools to help instructors foster inclusive, student-centered learning environments and strengthen student success.
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High Impact Practices , Mindfulness
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From Nightmare to Effective Collaboration: Improving Teamwork in Public Health Education Using A Role-Based Framework.
This session introduces a role-based framework for improving collaboration and accountability in group assignments. Participants explore why traditional group work often falls short and learn practical strategies, including structured roles, collaboration plans, and peer evaluation tools, to create more equitable and effective teamwork experiences.
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Active Learning , Course Design/Redesign
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Helping Students Find Their Voice: Creative Strategies for Engaged Academic Writing
This interactive workshop explores creative, adaptable strategies for helping students develop confidence, clarity, and voice in academic writing. Participants experiment with active learning techniques and high-impact practices, leaving with ready-to-use activities that promote engagement, student choice, and authentic academic expression
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Active Learning , High Impact Practices , Pedagogy
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Inside Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed provides the latest news, analysis and solutions for the entire higher education community. Inside Higher Ed is owned by Times Higher Education (THE), the world’s most authoritative source of data, analysis and information on higher education, with five decades’ experience dedicated to the…
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Assessment , Ed Assessment , Evidence-based practices , Formative Assessment (LATs, CATs) , High Impact Practices
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Inventive Course Assignments and Activities: Ideas from Comm 4420W
This session showcases inventive, adaptable assignments from a Writing Intensive course that integrates High-Impact Practice principles. Presenters share strategies such as peer review, faculty interviews, multimodal communication, and frequent feedback to foster engagement, student ownership, and meaningful research communication across disciplines
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Active Learning , Course Design/Redesign , High Impact Practices
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Keynote Presentation – Joyful Teaching in Every Class: Find Your Fizz to Boost Learning and Success
This keynote explores how rediscovering joy and purpose in teaching can support flourishing for both instructors and students. Drawing on research and insights from The Joyful Online Teacher, the session invites educators to reflect on well-being, meaning, and transformational teaching practices that enhance learning and student success.
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Evidence-based practices , Mindfulness
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Keynote Presentation: Engaging Students through High-Impact Practices: Access, Quality Design, and Assessment
Dr. Tia McNair encourages Mizzou educators to design data-informed high-impact practices that support all students and advance institutional goals.
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High Impact Practices
New AI Ethics Module
If you’re teaching with AI this fall, use our new Canvas module, Students’ Guide to Ethical Use of AI, to help students reflect on its learning and societal impacts. A short video shows how to review and add it to your course.
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AI Resources for Students , Teaching with AI
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Research Intensive Course Faculty Panel
This session introduces MU’s Research Intensive course designation and highlights how research-intensive courses advance high-impact practices across disciplines. A faculty panel shares strategies for designing RI courses, scaffolding assignments, managing workload, and aligning course elements with institutional priorities and student learning goals.
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Course Design/Redesign , High Impact Practices
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Rethink and Redesign Assessments and Assignments That Have Been Undermined by AI
This session explores strategies for rethinking assessments and assignments that have been undermined by AI. Participants examine authentic and multimodal assessment approaches, along with scaffolding techniques, to better align assignments with current AI capabilities while promoting meaningful learning and reducing academic integrity concerns.
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AI Resources for Students , Assessment
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Review of Teaching Resources
Explore curated resources designed to support effective teaching through self-assessment, peer evaluation, and structured observation practices from leading academic institutions.
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Review of Teaching
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Showcasing Learning Through ePortfolios: Connecting Pedagogy and Technology
This session explores the pedagogical value of ePortfolios and practical strategies for integrating them into coursework to support reflection, assessment, and professional development. Participants are introduced to MU’s new ePortfolio tool, including its Canvas integration, key features, and available campus support.
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Assessment , Campus Resources , Course Design/Redesign
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Small Group LIVE sessions: Experience in Piloting this Discussion Board Alternative
This session explores Small Group LIVE Sessions as an interactive alternative to traditional discussion boards in a graduate-level course. Presenters share how the model was designed, structured, and graded, discuss student feedback and lessons learned, and offer practical guidance for adapting live discussion formats to different courses and modalities.
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Active Learning , Course Design/Redesign , Evidence-based practices
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Sound Teaching: A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Hearing and Acoustics Through Experiential Learning
This session explores experiential strategies for teaching sound and hearing through hands-on activities that connect theory to practice. Participants examine approaches for building auditory awareness and descriptive vocabulary while leveraging hybrid teaching modalities to create individualized, active learning experiences across disciplines.
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Active Learning , Course Design/Redesign
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Story as Strategy: Using Narrative Design to Deepen Reflection, Retention, and Relevance in Learning
This interactive workshop introduces narrative design strategies that help instructors structure content, motivate learners, and deepen reflection across disciplines. Drawing on research and story-based frameworks, participants practice practical techniques for enhancing engagement, retention, and relevance through meaningful learning narratives.
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Active Learning , Pedagogy
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Strategies to Address Grade Inflation & Better Align Grades to Student Learning
This interactive panel discussion examines grade inflation in higher education and what grades do—and do not—reveal about student learning. Panelists explore alternative, evidence-aligned assessment models, including standards-based grading, and share practical strategies instructors can use to improve grading accuracy, transparency, and alignment with learning outcomes.
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Inclusive Teaching , Mindfulness
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Striving for Tomorrow: Supporting Autistic Young Adults
This session explores practical, strength-based strategies for supporting autistic young adults in post-secondary education and beyond. Participants learn about the STRIVE Program at the University of Missouri and examine approaches that balance employment readiness, soft skills, and inclusive instructional design to promote independence and student success.
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Campus Resources , Inclusive Teaching , Neurodiversity
Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A free guide from Elon University and AAC&U helps students navigate AI with ethical, academic, and career-focused strategies.
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AI Resources for Students
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Success in Nursing: Coaching for Excellence
This session highlights the Sinclair School of Nursing’s Success Coach Framework and its role in improving student success, retention, and well-being through holistic, relationship-centered support. Participants explore adaptable coaching strategies and apply core principles through a case study to inform proactive student support and early intervention across academic programs.
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Campus Resources , Evidence-based practices , Inclusive Teaching
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Supporting Intellectual Pluralism & Maintaining Academic Freedom in Teaching and Learning
Deans and faculty members discussed proactive teaching strategies in a virtual panel discussion “Supporting Intellectual Pluralism & Maintaining Academic Freedom in Teaching and Learning”. The topics included honoring intellectual pluralism and academic freedom, structuring and managing in-class discussions and challenges, designing learning activities and assessments that build your confidence as…
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Teaching AI Application: Lessons Learned
This session shares lessons learned from integrating AI marketing applications into a large-enrollment course. Participants explore course design strategies, student feedback, and practical considerations for using AI to enhance learning at scale while balancing instructional challenges and academic integrity.
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AI Resources for Students , Course Design/Redesign
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Teaching Essentials: Teaching with AI
Facilitated by Flower Darby
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Teaching with AI
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Teaching Renewal Week 2023 – Keynote Presentation
Harnessing the Resilience Within: the Science of Biological and Behavioral Resilience through Plasticity, Sociality, and Meaning
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Neurodiversity , Pedagogy
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Teaching Renewal Week 2024 – Keynote Presentation
Learning in the Age of AI
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Teaching with AI
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Teaching Renewal Week 2025 – Keynote Presentation
Engaging Students through High-Impact Practices: Access, Quality Design, and Assessment
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Assessment , High Impact Practices
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Teaching Strategies & Reflections on AI
In spring 2025, T4LC AI Teaching Fellows came together to help instructors navigate a rapidly changing teaching landscape. This eBook shares the ideas, tools, and resources they explored. Whether you're new to AI or experienced, we hope you find it useful.
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Teaching with AI
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Teaching the Whole Student: What We Can Learn From Student-Athletes
This interactive session explores what faculty can learn from the academic experiences of student-athletes to better support all learners. Participants examine common perceptions, available support systems, and the role of meaningful feedback and mentorship in fostering motivation, resilience, and student success across diverse learning contexts.
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Assessment , Evidence-based practices , Inclusive Teaching
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Teaching: Can AI actually help students write authentically?
This Chronicle of Higher Education article explores how Jeanne Beatrix Law at Kennesaw State University integrates AI into writing instruction through "rhetorical prompting," encouraging students to use AI as a tool for deeper critical thinking and authentic expression in their writing.
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Teaching with AI
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence. Since its founding in 1966, The Chronicle has grown to serve millions of educators, administrators, researchers, and policymakers who rely on its insights to lead, teach, learn, and innovate. The Chronicle’s independent…
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Active Learning , Assessment , Course Design/Redesign , Ed Assessment , Evidence-based practices , Game-Based Learning , High Impact Practices , Summative Assessment , Syllabus , Teaching with AI
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The Compassionate Classroom: Applying the Pedagogy of Kindness for Enhanced Student Engagement and Well-being
This workshop explores evidence-based strategies for creating compassionate, inclusive classrooms that support student engagement and well-being without sacrificing academic rigor. Participants examine the role of psychological safety and instructor kindness and leave with practical, low-prep techniques and a personalized “Kindness Intervention” ready to implement in their courses.
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Inclusive Teaching , Mindfulness
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The Feedback Revolution: Secure, Personalized Coaching with Show-Me AI
This session showcases a secure, FERPA-compliant model for delivering personalized, data-informed feedback using Mizzou’s Show-Me AI platform. Participants explore how instructors can combine student performance data and course materials to generate individualized coaching reports at scale while maintaining academic integrity, responsible AI use, and instructor oversight.
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AI Resources for Students , Assessment , Evidence-based practices
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The Scholarly Teacher
“Purposefully pause. Think critically. Reflect on your teaching and your students’ learning.” This blog is named The Scholarly Teacher to emphasize the importance of taking an informed and practiced approach to enhancing student learning by systematic improvement of effective teaching. A major focus of this blog is a healthy balance…
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AI Resources for Students , Assessment , Course Design/Redesign , Ed Assessment , Evidence-based practices , High Impact Practices , Syllabus , Teaching with AI