Announcements

CITL and New Media Discuss Generative AI in Education

Conversations around generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) are occurring across higher education and across our campuses.  CITL, New Media, and others have worked to bring together a series of discussions on the impact and opportunities of AI. The University of Maine has launched Learning With AI, an initiative to help faculty and students adapt to an […]

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CITL Supports GIS

CITL Instructional Designers can now work with faculty interested in utilizing geospatial information in their courses via ARC GIS Online. With support from IT and the Maine Geospatial Institute (opens in a new window), faculty and students can use this centrally funded, browser-based, collaborative GIS service, integrated with their UMaine single-sign on account. Students and faculty will […]

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Upcoming event – Helping students understand the feedback process

Providing effective feedback to students has been shown to improve learning and motivate students more than grades. It is also a more inclusive and equitable strategy for learning. Yet often students fail to engage in the feedback process. We will discuss some basic characteristics of good feedback, and ways to deliver feedback, ending with a […]

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Upcoming event – Grackle add-ons and accessible course materials

GrackleDocs is a set of add-on tools available in Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets as part of the University’s Google Suite. It makes the creation and curation of digitally accessible documents easy to learn and adopt. This orientation will introduce you to this tool and demonstrate how you can use it to build your inclusive […]

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New Faculty Orientation coming soon!

New faculty full- and part-time are welcome to attend the upcoming New Faculty Orientation in August! This year new hires from last year are welcome to join as well for any or all of the events. To learn more about the schedule and register, please CLICK HERE.

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