Online workshop series on Teaching Innovation for Arqus teachers

The Arqus Alliance invites teachers to participate in a series of online workshops aimed at supporting this community in promoting innovative teaching approaches for more effective and engaged student learning in multiple contexts, in and outside the classroom. The first round of workshops will take place online from 18^th September to 30^th November 2023.

The workshops are organised in the framework of the Arqus Teaching Innovation Initiative and will be delivered by experienced teachers in specific strategies, methodologies and technologies for active learning and psychological approaches to improvement of motivation and engagement.

Each Arqus university will organise 1 or 2 workshop/s so that the participants can benefit from the diversity of contributions and the exchange of experiences and knowledge between members.

Each online workshop will have a 2 to 3-hour duration with a high component of discussion and application of concepts so that participants become able to implement the specific methodology or technology and be aware of the benefits and potential pitfalls.

Participants who successfully change their teaching based on what they learn in a given workshop will be invited to deliver a workshop in a subsequent edition to help the formation of a community of active learning practitioners among the Arqus Alliance.

Registration is already open for the following online workshops:

Workshop “Peer Feedback”:

• Trainer: Grion Valentina (University of Padua).
• 18^th September, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST.
• The aim of the workshop is to stimulate awareness in the participants of the didactic potential of peer feedback and peer assessment processes. A further and parallel goal is to make teachers aware of the role of students as key agents and not just passive users or mere performers within the assessment processes.
• Maximum of 40 attendees.
• Register here.

Workshop “Generative AI as a way to innovate your Teaching and Learning approaches”:

• Trainers: Sílvia Araújo and Rui Lima (University of Minho).
• 19^th September 2023, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST.
• This online workshop aims to support teachers to use Generative AI. A perspective from (non-expert) teachers to teachers. During the two-hour session, participants will have the opportunity to interact with each other, discussing the way teachers may use generative AI to increase their productivity and innovate their teaching and learning approaches. The trainers will propose a simplified model to apply AI in their practice, based on the following four dimensions: Summarizing, Extracting, Transforming, and Expanding.
• Register here.

Workshop “Explore first: Drawn on experience to gain a deeper understanding”

• Trainer: José Lencastre (University of Minho).
• 22^nd September 2023, 15:00 – 17:00 CEST.
• “Explore First” is a pedagogical model that strives to make the student the leading actor in their learning in scenarios where digital action is merged with face-to-face activity. The purpose is for students, working in small groups, first explore a topic using their prior knowledge to consider possible solutions. By struggling, the students gain a deeper understanding of the structure of the problem and its elements. Then, students explain the best answer.
• Register here.

[Posponed]

Workshop “Teaching (for) Future Skills in Higher Education”

• Trainer: Beatrice Kogler (University of Graz).
• 9^th November 2023 (hour need to be confirmed).
• Register here.

Workshop “Didactic measures to increase academic integrity”

• Trainer: Elisabeth Weber (University of Graz).
• 30^th November (hour need to be confirmed).
• Register here.