Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs prior to midterms. Log In and Join

The Faculty Coffee Hour is designed to provide faculty members the space to discuss current issues they are facing in an inclusive and supportive environment. Faculty consultant Cate Wengelnik from Academic Innovation and faculty members will work together on finding solutions, connecting faculty to resources and encouraging diverse perspectives and ideas. Come join us and […]

Participants will explore inclusive practices such as offering students choices in assessments. For example, creating diverse forms of assessments, designing assessments reflective of the student population, and discussing how students connect content with their lived experiences and with social issues. Through this workshop, participants will explore strategies for a more relevant, equitable, and creative approach […]

Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs. Log in and Join

Scaffolding is designing your teaching and learning experiences to offer students temporary support to achieve objectives just outside their current capabilities. In this workshop, we'll discuss how scaffolding in your assignments, lectures, and courses can create a more inclusive environment for students to participate and engage. By attending this course, participants will be able to: […]

Participants will reflect on their assessment strategies and will identify one or more activities where students can co-create content. Through a dialogue and Think-Pair-Share approach, participants will finalize one element that promote co-creation of knowledge that they can incorporate in their courses. By attending this course, participants will be able to: Design activities that engage […]

In an effort to support inclusiveness, one of UTSA's core values, participants in this webinar will learn to use the basic features of Ally, the automated course accessibility tool. By attending this course, participants will be able to: • Locate and utilize the Course Accessibility Overview within Ally • Identify the easy steps to enroll […]

ACUE’s Effective Practice Framework course concentrates on effective teaching practices in face-to-face instruction. Comprehensive in scope and organized around five units with 25 modules of study, faculty members learn together in cohorts and implement approaches to design an effective course, establish a productive learning environment, use active learning techniques, promote higher order thinking, and assess […]

This workshop is led by the Dreamers Resource Center and Academic Innovation to provide an overview of the federal and state policies that impact the lives of Dreamers and the undocumented student population. Additionally, we will discuss the unique academic, professional, and personal challenges Dreamers and undocumented students face when completing their higher education degree. […]