Teaching Renewal Week 2025

Teaching Renewal Week (January 13 – 17, 2025), is an annual virtual conference to help us prepare for teaching in the upcoming semester. This year, the focus is transformative themes of Teaching with AI and High Impact Practices (HIPs).
If you have any questions, please contact us at teaching@missouri.edu.

Welcome Mizzou’s own Dean Marisa Chrysochoou, Ketcham Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering as co-chair for this year’s Teaching Renewal Week.

Dean Marisa Chrysochoou

Keynote Presentation:

Practical AI for Educators
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 10:00am-10:50am

In this session, we’ll explore the potential of AI as a tool for teaching and learning. The session will cover the following topics:  

  • Educator Aids: How to make teaching easier and more effective using AI  
  • Student Aids: AI and student-centric use cases 
  • Combining AI with human expertise & pedagogy to enhance student learning  
  • Teaching with and about AI: benefits and pitfalls.  

Outcomes:

  •  Identify potential benefits and challenges of using generative AI to support student learning.
  • Explore how generative AI can be used as a supportive tool in teaching practice.
  • Reflect on how to work with generative AI as a co-intelligence to amplify educator expertise

Dr. Lilach Mollick is Co-Director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton. Her work focuses on the development of pedagogical strategies that include artificial intelligence and interactive methodologies. She has worked with Wharton to develop a wide range of educational tools and games used in classrooms worldwide. She has also written several papers on the uses of AI for teaching and training, and her work on AI has been discussed in publications including The New York Times and Vox. She advises companies and organizations on the advantages and risks of AI in teaching. She holds a doctorate in Education from NYU.

Featured Presentation:

High Impact Practices
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 11:00am-11:50am

Dr. Tia Brown McNair is a Partner at Sova, a company that facilitates transformative change through actionable strategies and practical implementation support. She also serves as a Senior Consultant with AAC&U, where she was the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers.  In her senior leadership position at AAC&U, she oversaw both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices (HIPs), student success, and campus climate, and directed AAC&U’s Summer Institutes on HIPs and Student Success, and TRHT Campus Centers. She is the co-author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (January 2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (July 2016 and August 2022 Second edition). McNair is the editor of Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework published by Routledge in June 2024. In May 2023, McNair received an honorary degree from Franklin Pierce University for her national work to dismantle a false belief in a hierarchy of human value and for her efforts to advance racial equity to support the success of all students. NASPA, the association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, named McNair the 2024 recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award.