Events, Workshops, and Communities

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51��x hosts a variety of events and communities throughout the academic year. These opportunities are geared toward instructors, graduate assistants, and any others involved in creating learning experiences 51�� Michigan University. Can't make it to an event? No problem! Check out our past event archive, which includes materials shared during the session and/or a session recording.

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Upcoming Events

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Past Events

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Learning Communities and Cohorts

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Recurring Programs and Workshops

Do you not see what you are looking for here, or would you like a training or event more specific to your needs?

Our team is available to come to a department or group meeting to facilitate specific or targeted teaching and learning training. Reach out and let us know what challenges you are hoping to solve for instructors, learners, or both and we can support you by connecting you with resources and facilitating conversations around curriculum, course design, or instructional best practices. These can be single meetings or extended workshops depending on your goals.

Contact the 51��x Teaching and Learning Team to discuss your needs.

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Upcoming Events

Nov 12

12 p.m.

AI @ 51��

Generative AI and Your Copyrights: A campus discussion

Date: Tuesday, November 12 Time: 12 p.m. Location: Online

Join Ed Eckel from the University Libraries for a 60-minute interactive discussion on a critical issue in academic publishing: How scholarly publishers are selling faculty work to AI companies for training large language models (LLMs). Explore the implications for copyright, author consent, and the commercialization of academic scholarship. Discuss potential faculty and institutional responses to this evolving practice.

Key topics include:

Copyright in the age of AI
Author rights and consent
The changing role of academic publishers
Strategies for protecting scholarly work

Please come prepared to share your perspectives and learn from colleagues.

Nov 14

12 p.m.

Post-Election Virtual Meet-up for 51�� Faculty, Instructors, and Graduate Instructors

Date: Thursday, November 14 Time: 12 p.m. Location: Online

Join the Office of Faculty Development for a virtual gathering to discuss how we can continue to support one another and our students in the period following the 2024 election.

Dec 4

noon and 6 p.m.

Course Design and Development

Preparing for Next Semester with the Functional Course Design Checklist

Date: Wednesday, December 4 Time: noon and 6 p.m. Location: Online

Join 51��x Instructional Design for a 30 minute Ask Me Anything (AMA) Session about performing a functional review of your course. In this short session, Instructional Designers will share the Functional Course Design Checklist and answer questions about various ways course accessibility, navigation, interaction, and alignment might be improved in preparation for future semesters.

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