Monday, September 15, 2025

We're pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellows: Colin Harrison, Kendall Nelson, Kim Paige, Mary Peek, Melissa Foulger, Pardis Pishdad, and Zachary Handlos (left to right in the photos above). "I'm looking forward to working with these faculty as we embark on their respective discipline-based education research projects," said CTL's Amanda Nolen, who leads the Hesburgh Fellows. The Hesburgh program supports mid and senior-career faculty as they interrogate issues related to teaching and learning. 

CTL EVENTS

This workshop explores how students experience failure in the classroom and how instructors can respond in ways that foster growth, resilience, and meaningful learning. We'll introduce practical instructional strategies across three areas - communication, feedback, and assessment - that help shift students’ perceptions of failure from threat to opportunity.

Join part two of this interactive forum to explore the power of mid-semester feedback to enhance teaching and learning. We’ll share strategies for making and communicating timely adjustments. Walk away with practical tools and fresh inspiration to make meaningful changes before the semester’s over. Participation in part one of the forum is not required to attend this session.

Nervous about talking to your students while waiting for class to begin? Don’t know what to say when you meet your professor in the hallway? Join us for a two-part workshop series on small talk - a practical tool for interacting with students and colleagues. This series is designed for international graduate students/scholars and hosted by CTL's International TA Program. 

Interested in creating flexible activities and assignments that meet instructional goals without causing you or your students to feel overwhelmed? This roundtable will explore the tension between flexibility and structure in courses and share practical strategies for using technology and Universal Design for Learning principles to support diverse learners and maintain clear expectations.

TECH CONNECTS

This bring-your-own-lunch session will explore how future use-cases for digital credentials can support a more integrated approach from education to enterprise. This session is led by C21U's Director of Digital Learning Technologies, Eric Sembrat, and CTL's Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Online, Vincent Spezzo. Open to Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students.

Join the College of Lifetime Learning's Learning Systems team as they showcase H5P, a user-friendly web tool that empowers instructors to create interactive experiences. With H5P, instructors can easily create and publish more than 50 content types including games, quizzes, and interactive videos directly from a Canvas course. Join via Zoom.

Led by Todd Fernandez and Laura Christian, this workshop will share a framework for creating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) activities in engineering courses. The framework centers student engagement with AI/ML tools to enhance course content. Participants will gain access to the expanding repository of AI/ML activities from the Biomedical Engineering department. While the workshop uses engineering examples, it is open to all.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Join the next cohort of Leaders in Teaching and Learning! This program develops faculty leaders to foster effective teaching within disciplinary units across campus. You'll participate in professional development sessions and complete projects that support your growth as a teaching and learning leader.

Questions?
Contact Bethany Harris, Communications Program Manager.
bethany.harris@gatech.edu | 404.894.4474