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Communities of Practice 2026/2027

Active Learning

We are excited to launch our Active Learning Community of Practice (COP) in just a few weeks!

This community will bring together faculty interested in exploring and implementing active learning strategies to enhance student engagement and learning. Whether you are new to active learning or already incorporating it into your teaching, we invite you to join us.

Through this community, participants will have opportunities to:

  • encourage active learning practices on campus;
  • share techniques and ideas related to active learning;
  • discuss what is/isn’t working with our students regarding active learning;
  • create tools and activities that can be implemented in classrooms around campus;
  • practice active learning activities to gain an understanding of how they work;
  • build a supportive community of practice based around active learning.

 

Teaching with AI

We are excited to launch our Teaching with AI Community of Practice (COP) in just a few weeks!

This COP will bring together faculty who are interested in developing AI use in their classroom to enhance student learning and develop authentic assessment using AI. Whether you are new to using AI or are already developed tools you use in your teaching, we invite you to join us.

Through this community, participants will have opportunities to:

  • discuss the AI competencies for graduation requirement
  • utilize AI tools for classroom use
  • develop strategies for implementing AI at various levels of course design and development
  • practice strategies for getting students to engage appropriately with AI

KEEN

We are excited to announce the return of the KEEN Community of Practice!

This community will bring together faculty interested in developing their curriculum and course content with KEEN’s three C’s (Curiosity, Creating value, and Connections) and the Entrepreneurial mindset (EM) to enhance student engagement. Whether you are new to the KEEN community or already using the KEEN ideas to drive you teaching, we invite you to join us.

Through this community, participants will have opportunities to:

  • learn more about KEEN best practice
  • modify or create classroom assignments and assessments using EM
  • use engineeringunleashed.com as a tool to help develop course content
  • create cards to be published on the engineering unleashed website
  • discuss how the three C’s and EM have been used on campus to improve teaching and learning
  • build a supportive community based on KEEN principles here on campus

Sign up now!

Interested in joining us? Please sign up and indicate your availability for our initial meeting for any of the COPs you are interested in.

Active Learning sign up and scheduling Form

Teaching with AI sign up and scheduling Form

KEEN sign up and scheduling Form