Camps are multi-day professional development events where we support Faculty designing hybrid and online courses. Faculty attend presentations, explore technology tools and build parts of their courses with just-in-time staff support.
Camp AI is a three-day event focused on helping faculty address generative AI in a course. We will work intensively to support you as you craft an AI policy statement for a course and design or redesign an assignment. Camp is part presentation and part hands-on activity. We ask that you set aside the time to attend all the sessions, write the syllabus statement and assignment instructions for a course that you will be teaching, and present it to your colleagues at the end of this professional development event. Participants will receive a stipend of $500 for attending all the sessions and completing all the activities.
| Day | Time and Topic |
| Day 1 & 2 | 10am – 12pm: Presentations & discussions
2pm – 4pm: Tool explorations & discussions |
| Day 3 | 10am – 12pm: Work time & discussions
2pm – 4pm: |
| Previous Camps | |||
| January 6th-8th, 2025 | |||
| June 2nd - 4th, 2025 |
Module Making Camp is a three-day event focused on building or refreshing modules in your in-person, hybrid, or online courses. We will work intensively to support you as you design one learning module for a course that you will be teaching. We will focus on Brightspace and the tools integrated into it (Top Hat, VoiceThread, Hypothesis) to foster student engagement. You will learn practical skills to make your syllabus, slides and videos accessible. We ask that you set aside the time to attend all sessions, complete the creation of a module, and present it to your colleagues.
A learning module is a collection of subject-related teaching materials that is carefully sequenced and chunked. In addition to course content, modules contain learning outcomes, directions for use, learning activities, and assessments to ascertain whether students have understood the material covered in the module. They are the building blocks of hybrid and online courses, but also useful to replace sessions of in-person courses when weather, conferences, or health issues require alternatives. Professors design these learning experiences and students complete them within a specified period of time, usually a week.
| Day | Time and Topic |
| Day 1 & 2 | 10am – Noon (Required): You will learn from COL instructional designers about course design best practices. They will showcase successful sample modules, instructor-created video materials, interactive activities, and low-stakes assessments. 2pm – 4pm (Optional): You can either attend tool workshops or work on your module with support staff online who are ready to help you. |
| Day 3 | 10am – Noon (Optional): You can either attend tool workshops or work on your module with support staff online who are ready to help you. 2pm – 4pm (Required): Make final touches and present your module. Get feedback from colleagues and get ideas for improving it prior to launching it! |
Did you participate in one of our Camp AI programs since 2024? Have you perfected your statement about the use of AI in your syllabus or an assignment using AI? How did everything go? Unqualified success? Some parts in need of tweaking?
Come to one of the camp reunions we are hosting and share your insights as well as get an update on the state of AI in teaching and learning. The camp facilitators will be there to hear about your experiences and answer your questions.
If you were not able to attend one of the camps, you are also warmly invited to join, participate, and learn at one of the reunions.
Please register to receive details about how to join us.
| Past Reunions |
| May 5th, 2025 |
| November 19th and 20th, 2025 |