LTS Annual Report_2024

ANNUAL REPORT 2023–2024 - P - - - - - - AGE 13 the night sky might have appeared several thousand years ago, or create a VR tour around the Milky Way or local galaxy clusters. Kayleigh O’Keeffe, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences PROJECT: Collaborate with CITL staff and local science centers to develop a scaffolded communica tion project assignment to communicate topics to a non-scientific audience. Angelina Rodriguez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, AVP for Global Learning, Population Health PROJECT: To collaborate with CITL staff on the devel opment and scaffolding of a final project framework, using backward design principles to address the question ‘How do leaders sustain themselves in the face of large-scale, complex challenges?’ E.J. Rovella, MBA, MHA, Doctoral Candidate, Population Health PROJECT: To collaborate with CITL staff on active learning, with a focus on discussion, interaction, and peer feedback. Students will learn about the fundamen tals of AI, including using AI as a resource and framing ChatGPT questions effectively. Then, students will use ChatGPT to summarize an episode of a healthcare focused TV drama of their choosing, highlighting and comparing issues that the tool may not fully understand. Limei Shan, M.A., Teaching Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures Zilong Pan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning, and Technology PROJECT: To collaborate with CITL staff on incor porating generative AI tools to facilitate Chinese language teaching and learning. Michelle Spicer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences PROJECT: To collaborate with CITL on incorporat ing inquiry-based group projects into a course that broadly introduces non-majors to local, regional, and global biodiversity. Originally designed as an inten sive field-based course for a small group of students, it is now being offered as a primarily lecture-based course--without a lab--for fifty students. Lawrence Tartaglia, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences PROJECT: To collaborate with CITL staff on utilizing VR as a means to teach lecture content through fully immersing students in learning where they can see, decipher, and interpret real-life virological principles. Global Lehigh We partnered once again with the Office of International Affairs to offer the Global Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows Program. This year, the program sponsored summer travel to Guanajuato, Mexico where faculty participants worked together to develop effective study abroad learning experi ences. Participants included Cheryl Matherly (OIA), Angelina Rodriguez (OIA/COH), Greg Reihman (LTS/ Philosophy), Renée Bailey (English), Hugo CeronAnaya (Sociology and Anthropology), Lilia Adriana Perez Limon (MLL), Brook Sawyer (Education), Tom Chen (MLL), Stephanie Prevost (Law), and Eduardo Rodriguez (OIA).

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