This session explores how Work-Based Learning can move beyond internships and become the structural backbone of a program in higher education. Drawing from decades of implementation experience, including contributions to UIS’s planned School of Engineering. Ronald Ulseth will share models, design principles, and implementation strategies for integrating authentic industry work, reflection, and competency assessment into the curriculum.
Discover a full suite of AI-enabled computing resources available to support your research, teaching, and innovative course design at UIS. This hands-on session will introduce four powerful tools you can begin using right away:
When you're building an online course, considering how to keep students interested and engaged can be challenging. Integrating multimedia and interactive elements can ensure that students get the most out of their courses. During this workshop, we will provide some helpful tips for how best to use multimedia and interactions in an online course and will explore tools like DesignPLUS and H5P.
Google Assignments is a Canvas LTI that allows instructors to assign Google Workspace documents to students. Join COLRS staff as we discuss how to enable Google Assignments in your courses and how it might improve the experience for both students and instructors.
Learners experience our LMS course sites every day for online and in-person courses. They have insight into what supports learning and what creates confusion. In this interactive panel, we will assemble a small group of learners (undergraduate students) from multiple Illinois institutions, who will share their honest perspectives on what works (and what doesn’t) in LMS course design. The session will be guided by questions such as: What makes a course site easy to navigate and understand?
This workshop will explore practical strategies for designing, facilitating, and assessing meaningful student peer review in a Canvas course. We will look at how peer review supports deeper learning, engagement, and feedback literacy.
We will also go over how to set up peer review using Canvas Assignments and the Harmonize discussion tool.
Join us in UHB 2004 or on Zoom.
Please join Professors Jennifer Faulkner (Medical Laboratory Science) and Catherine Williams (Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health) for a discussion and demonstration of Science Interactive lab kits used in UIS science courses. Faculty will share their experiences implementing these kits across different modalities and class sizes, highlighting successes and lessons learned.
How are UIS instructors using AI in the classroom and in their research? In this panel, Professors Bell Eapen (Information Systems), BJ Fletcher (Public Administration), and Brian Chen (Public Health) will discuss their innovative uses of generative AI to enrich their work as teachers and scholars.
Location: TBD or via Zoom
In this panel discussion, Professors Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Political Science) and Deborah Anthony (Legal Studies) will speak about their experiences teaching at Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, through the Northwestern Prison Education Program. They will discuss how they became involved with the program, what teaching in prison entailed, and how their work at Logan changed and enriched their teaching at UIS.
This session, led by Angela Doehring, Clinical Assistant Professor of Exercise Science, explores practical strategies to help students take ownership of their learning through goal-setting, reflection, and feedback. Dr. Doehring will share how she uses structured wellness projects to guide students in developing meaningful goals, tracking progress, and connecting coursework to personal and professional growth.