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The Teach, Play, Learn Conference is accepting proposals for presentations on real-life usage, empirical studies, and/or theoretical discussions of game-based teaching and learning. We are particularly interested in interactive workshops involving the best practices of teaching with games or playful elements in the classroom.
Whether or not you plan to submit a proposal, be sure to save the date for the conference (in person at IU South Bend): Friday, June 13, 2025
There are still five sessions remaining in this spring's Digital Gardener AI/GenAI Series, which takes place on Mondays at 12:45pm ET. From Career Readiness & Student Success to Professional Work and Future Considerations, the topics are timely and feature expert panelists at IU and beyond.
Register for each session individually from the Digital Gardener Initiative website.
PlayPosit is offering biweekly webinars this spring to help you get the most out of its interactive options for student engagement. They also offer a range of on-demand webinars, in case the spring options don't fit with your schedule (there is a yellow button at the bottom of the webinars page).
The Canvas Semester Checklist offers a range of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Canvas throughout the semester – and it includes new accessibility resources to help ensure your Canvas tools, documents, and media are accessible. (If you'd like end of semester information, be sure to explore the Wrapping Up the Semester section as well.)
Be sure to take advantage of the two IU-developed generative AI courses: While the Generative AI in the Classroom course is primarily for faculty, the Generative AI Essentials course can benefit faculty and students alike. Better yet, the Essentials course offers several badging opportunities, with more to come in the near term!
Instructional Technology Consultant Eric Brinkman argues that teaching students how to navigate an AI-infused future requires teaching them to think critically about AI: Not rejecting AI wholesale, refusing to use it in our classrooms, or unthinkingly equating it with cheating. Instead, choosing to explore AI in a way that teaches them that it is a tool.
Learning Technologies, in collaboration with partners like IU's campus teaching centers, has launched a series of badges on some of our most popular tools for teaching and learning. From Canvas Basics to GenAI Essential Skills to IT Security Basics, these badge offerings will continue to grow over time.
IT Training provides group training sessions for the IU community and its non-IU collaborators, and they also offer online courses and importable course content. Popular topics include Microsoft and Adobe applications, IU services, and digital security.
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Visit the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, the Digital Gardner Initiative, IU eTexts, the Mosaic Initiative, Teaching.IU, XRI, ACI Fellows, and the IU Knowledge Base—not to mention your campus teaching and learning center—for more on topics related to this issue.
