Reinert Center Events

Thinking and Teaching with AI

Tuesday, April 16, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Zoom
Guest facilitator: José Bowen

The excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. AI is changing working and thinking: as jobs and the way humans do thinking tasks change, how will our curriculum respond? AI is also changing how we think about average. If ChatGPT can produce consistent "C" work than we need to update our policies around grading. AI is even changing creativity. Together, we will examine the skills and content that will matter most in this new age, what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why articulation of ‘quality’ is essential. Focusing on the tangible, attendees will also learn techniques to transform assignments and assessments to motivate and engage students by placing greater emphasis on the process and experience of learning.

Registration is Required

About our facilitator:

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as president of a USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a Trustee of DePauw University, a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England and runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., doing innovation, pedagogy and D&I consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, Humanities and Musicology) and has written over 100 scholarly articles in top journals and in books from Oxford, Cambridge and Princeton university presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. His books on teaching include Teaching Naked (2012) winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the sequel, Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes with G. Edward Watson (2017) and the recent and the new Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021, Johns Hopkins University Press). His new book with G. Edward Watson, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning will be published in March, 2024 (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011), has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates. He was given a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990 and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. 

Ignatian Pedagogy Institute:

Accompanying Young People in the Creation of a Hope-Filled Future

Tuesday, May 7, 9:00 a.m. to Noon, Il Monastero

Through multiple interactive sessions, participants will engage in strategies focused on ways in which our courses can fulfill the Universal Apostolic Preference, “To accompany young people in the creation of a hope-filled future.” The strategies and approaches offered will be those that may be adapted to a variety of disciplines and pedagogical purposes.

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Online Courses: Summer/Fall 2024

The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching. Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken by individuals not enrolled in the certificate.

Registration is Required