LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES P - - - - AGE 14 AI Community of Practice Awarded Future Makers Grant A new CITL-sponsored AI Community of Practice held its first meeting in October. The group would go on to hold its second meeting during the CITL Winter Workshop to showcase the use of AI in the classroom by various members. The group collaborated on a pro posal for a Future Makers Strategy grant to develop a university repository, Lehigh AI, for sharing research, scholarship, and teaching resources related to the use of AI by members of the Lehigh community. In the spring, this Community of Practice submitted their proposal titled “Lehigh AI—Making Lehigh an AI-literate and Accessible Community for Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement” and was awarded a Future Makers Strategy Grant to “create and sustain an online resource with instructions for classroom activities, teaching modules integrable to multidisciplinary classes, technical how-tos, demon strations, and advice for leveraging tools based on artificial intelligence.” Teacher Development Program for Graduate Students The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and Instruction & Outreach librarians offered the year-long Teacher Development Series for graduate students looking to improve their instructional and classroom skills. Topics included Teaching Across Disciplines with Art, Teaching with AI, Cycles of Learning, Inclusive Teaching, Promoting Your Graduate Work, Universal Design for Learning, Integrating Sustainability into Your Courses, The Art of Lecturing, and Teaching with VR. Support for Online and Distance Education Distance Education (DE) continued support of five fully online graduate degree programs in both synchro nous and asynchronous formats, offering 72 courses to 790 registrants. CITL staff from the Instructional Technology team, Digital Media team and Distance Education collabo rated with the Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and faculty from the College of Business on the design, development, and rollout of three asynchronous online courses that comprise a Certificate of Business Analytics on the edX online learning platform. Our Learning Space Technology and Design team completed upgrades to 13 classroom presentation technology systems. Working with their colleagues from the Office of Distance Education, the team oversaw the design, installation, and testing of a sophisticated audiovisual system in the Whitaker 303 auditorium. We also built out 12 digital signage systems and upgraded 130 computers in public computing sites. MAKING THE FUTURE: Plans for 2025-26 Lehigh’s Future Makers strategy calls for growth in online master’s programs, innovations in undergraduate teaching, and targeted enhancements to student success. LTS will continue our partnerships with Strategic Plan Initiative Leads in these areas, while also expanding campus access to emerging academic technologies, providing professional development opportunities for faculty and students, and sparking curiosity about Lehigh’s past, present, and future.
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