UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) and IT Learning and Development are accepting applications for its next Blended Learning Transformation (BlendLT) workshop series. BlendLT is open to faculty, instructors and lecturers from all Penn State campuses who are interested in learning how to incorporate remote and online teaching experiences and various technology tools into face-to-face courses. Participants selected for the program will work toward redesigning one of their courses into a blended/hybrid format to launch in fall 2024 or spring 2025. Duri ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Open Education Engagement Series, offered online by Penn State University Libraries, is a series of interactive sessions on topics related to open educational resources (OER). The spring 2024 series focuses on OER technologies and University resources and support available to instructors and staff interested in learning more about OER. Each of the following one-hour sessions is offered on two different occasions. When registering, participants are asked to select which date they wish to attend. Read the full article here ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is accepting applications through April 19 for the 2024-25 Faculty Engagement Awards. This year’s theme is “Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Teaching.” Recipients of Faculty Engagement Awards will focus on readily available generative AI tools including Microsoft CoPilot and Adobe Firefly. Access to these tools will focus on such abilities of using generative AI to assist in content creation, course planning and content delivery. In addition, generative AI will be used to enhance overall ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Joseph T. Yun, artificial intelligence (AI) and innovation architect for the University of Pittsburgh, will lead sessions on AI in teaching and learning over two days in April as part of Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology’s (TLT) Dreamery Speaker Series. Yun will present “Let’s Get Real with Artificial Intelligence” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on April 16 at the Dreamery, ground floor Shields Building, on Penn State‘s University Park campus. Yun will concisely outline the transition from conventional AI approaches to the innovative realm of generative AI and ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has worked since 2009 alongside 55 diverse Faculty Fellows on projects at the intersection of pedagogy and technology. The window to apply for the next TLT Faculty Fellows cohort is open and proposals will be accepted until Friday, April 19. Fellows will have two years to develop their projects with TLT. For the 2024-2026 academic years, TLT is seeking faculty proposals for innovative fellows projects centered around one of the following categories: Read the full article here.  ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. —  Fifteen Penn State instructors recently worked with Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) to enhance their remote synchronous and similar courses requiring the use of video by harnessing the capabilities of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered webcam named the Insta360 Link. Its automated features minimize instructors’ time and attention directed to video production quality while also improving students’ learning experience. Their work was part of the 2023-24 TLT Faculty Engagement Awards program. It paired instructors from eight camp ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is accepting self-nominations through April 18 for the 2024-2026 Teaching and Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Committee. This committee plays a pivotal role in guiding TLT on integrating technology into teaching and learning at Penn State. TLT Faculty Advisory Committee members will: Engage regularly with other faculty leaders who interact with TLT. Guide teaching and learning decisions related to technology at Penn State. Recommend topical focus areas for existing programs, events and strat ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has announced that its virtual Symposium Lite will return on March 28, the week after the in-person TLT Symposium. The half-day event will feature four 30-minute, prerecorded presentations followed by 15-minute, live facilitated discussions with presenters. The presentations will be a mix of new material and repeated presentations from the TLT Symposium, allowing participants to continue exploring how technology can enhance teaching and learning. Read te full article here.  ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Top Hat is partnering with Penn State’s Harrisburg, Altoona and Hazleton campuses to offer a series of workshops Feb. 27–29 designed to enhance faculty’s use of Top Hat. Top Hat is an engagement platform that has tools educators and institutions can use to deliver interactive and personalized learning. Each Top Hat On Campus Day will consist of an overview of the most powerful Top Hat features, including discussions and polling, assessment options and customizable content. There also will be faculty speakers discussing their experiences using Top Hat and a book fair to ..read more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Collaborative efforts between six Penn State instructors from two campuses and two colleges worked in teams with Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) over the past two years as part of the 2022-24 TLT Faculty Fellows program. Their goal was to enrich the student engagement experience through technology. This included addressing themes such as affordability and inclusion, physi-digital space and radical creativity. Attributes such as these foster equitable opportunities, prepare students for dynamic workplaces and cultivate essential skills for the future. Faculty ..read more