Welcome and Keynote
Welcome session led by:
- Canan Bilen-Green, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Academic Affairs
- Natasha Jankowski, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Future-Proofing Teaching and Learning Through High-impact Practices: Questions to Drive Meaning and Innovation
At a time of enormous change in higher education and the world, high-impact practices hold more promise than ever in preparing students to navigate a future steeped in uncertainty and complexity. But simply labeling an experience as “high-impact” ensures neither efficacy nor innovation. As higher education seeks to prepare students to flourish in their lives, careers, and communities, it is time to reexamine what we know about high-impact practices that makes our continued investment in them relevant for faculty, staff, and students. This keynote session will center inquiry as the foundation of meaning and innovation to ask critical questions about purpose, quality, and equity as the means for unlocking the full potential of high-impact practices, now and into the future.
General Sessions
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
This session shows how UWM librarians used high-impact practices (reflection and Backwards Design) to develop info literacy tools about Generative AI and research for instructors. Participants will reflect on AI’s role in their disciplines and assignments.
Facilitated by:
- Heidi Anoszko, UWM Libraries
- Claire Dinkelman, UWM Libraries
- Will White, UWM Libraries
Teaching Topic Exchange
An interactive session to consider your role, your vision, and developing as the instructor that you want to be.
Facilitated by:
- Candice Ruh, Communication
Teaching Topic Exchange
Presenters describe examples from mathematics/statistics courses of scaffolded projects, spread over several weeks and culminating in a student presentation. Audience discusses how to create a project and break it into scaffolded, transparent steps.
Facilitated by:
- Suzanne Boyd, Mathematical Sciences
- Jessica Gartner, Mathematical Sciences
Micro Presentations
Creating Engaging Active Learning Opportunities Using AI
Active learning opportunities allow students to discover through doing, lead to long term learning, and help educators see where students need clarification. We will demonstrate how AI tools can generate ideas to enhance active learning.
Facilitated by:
- Sarah Riforgiate, Communication
- Lane Sunwall, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Defining Experiential Learning
This session explores and defines the variations of experiential learning from the classroom to the community and beyond, helping instructors identify opportunities to enhance their courses with career-focused education.
Facilitated by:
- Adam Follmer, Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Ben Trager, Center for Student Experience and Talent
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
Discover how storytelling can transform teaching by engaging students, promoting critical thinking, and connecting course content to real-world contexts. This session offers actionable strategies and tools to integrate storytelling across disciplines.
Facilitated by:
- Sarthak Singh, Strategic Management
- Lin Deng, Management Science
Teaching Topic Exchange
Our session will demystify the difficulty of integrating career competencies in college courses. Attendees will have time to revise their syllabuses in a supported environment.
Facilitated by:
- Morgan Foster, Women’s & Gender Studies and English
- Kim Omachinski, Communication
Teaching Topic Exchange
This interactive session will examine alternatives to traditional letter-based assessment and explore how implementing alternative approaches can benefit students. Participants will reflect on their practices as they consider alternative approaches.
Facilitated by:
- Eric Ely, School of Information Studies
Micro Presentations
Illuminate your Students: How to Use the Lightboard to Increase Engagement
This presentation shows our real-time experience learning Lightboard (that day!). Lightboard is a novel recording tool for instructors to engage with students in video presentations. We show tips and tricks, including how fun and easy it was.
Facilitated by:
- Christopher Peters, School of Nursing
- Renee Scampini, Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health
Using Infographics to Promote Collaborative and Reflective Learning
Infographics are visual representations commonly used to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner, utilizing symbols, images, maps, graphics, and charts. Design process and grading can be adapted effectively across disciplines.
Facilitated by:
- Vipavee Thongpriwan, School of Nursing
- Vicki Swaney, School of Nursing
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Break
Please use this time to eat and come back at 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
Discover how Generative AI can facilitating Universal Design and high-impact practices. Learn strategies to create and support adaptable, inclusive learning experiences which are both usable and accessible.
Facilitated by:
- David Delgado, School of Information Studies and Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
Teaching strategies used to facilitate conversation and engage students in learning about lifelong learning were a case study coupled with discussion. Participants can expect to begin creating a case study discussion by the end of this session.
Facilitated by:
- Kylateia Farrar-Stern, School of Nursing
- Mandy Sheriff, School of Nursing
Teaching Topic Exchange
We will examine improving support for learners with disabilities in STEM, including instructor training, and stimulate discussion of student challenges. We will emphasize resources including Canvas tools and accessibility through universal design.
Facilitated by:
- John Berges, Biological Sciences
- Erica Young, Biological Sciences
- Shannon Aylseworth, Accessibility Resource Center
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
This session will present the most significant discussion protocols and strategies learned by two UW-Milwaukee faculty after attending The Discussion Project summer workshop at UW-Madison.
Facilitated by:
- Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, School of Architecture & Urban Planning
- Leon Sawh, Criminal Justice & Criminology
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Strategies in Teaching & Learning
We will explore the use of AI to create and export low-stakes quizzes to Canvas. These assessments help gauge student understanding and enable instructors to adjust strategies while allowing students to reflect on their own grasp of material and improve study techniques.
Facilitated by:
- Lane Sunwall, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Teaching Topic Exchange
This session is an opportunity for the Experiential Learning Teaching Fellows, part of a partnership between SET and CETL, to share how they are infusing career concepts into their curriculum and courses. The Fellows program is aimed at incorporating career exploration and professional development skills into the classroom and involves faculty from across the UWM schools and colleges.
Facilitated by:
- Ben Trager, Center for Student Experience and Talent
- Laurie Marks, Center for Student Experience and Talent
Teaching Topic Exchange
This session is an opportunity for faculty and staff to share how they are infusing High-Impact Practices (HIPs) into their curriculum and courses. Join this discussion if you are interested in hearing or sharing ideas with other faculty and staff on ways to embed HIPs into learning experiences for students.
Facilitated by:
- Connie Schroeder, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Teaching Topic Exchange
This session is an opportunity for the Student Success in the Classroom Departmental Teams to reflect on the past semester, share updates on action plans and activities, and brainstorm ideas and practices for the Spring semester. Join this discussion if you are interested in hearing or sharing ideas with other faculty and staff on advancing collective strategies to enhance student success in the classroom.
Facilitated by:
- Natasha Jankowski, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning