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Faculty Development: Call for Proposals

Source for your MSU Faculty Development Needs

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The FDC sincerely appreciates your dedication to serving our students and the wider community!

We value what you have to share, and we invite you to submit brief proposals to facilitate sessions or share 5-minute micro learning videos about a teaching strategy, technology, or topic that could benefit your colleagues.

Please review each call for proposals below for more details.   

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Blitz Week 2024

The Faculty Development Center plans to host our annual Blitz Week on January 8-11, 2024, via Zoom!

We invite individuals to submit proposals to facilitate presentations (25-30-minute), panels (1-hour), Innovative Ideas and Tools (15-minute presentations, repeated about 3 times), and lightning presentations (7-10 minute) in the following areas:

  • Teaching and Learning (e.g., innovative approaches to teaching and learning, assessments, evaluation, high impact practices, course or program curriculum reform).

  • Teaching, Researching and Serving with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)
  • Scholarly Activities (e.g., Research, Grant Writing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - SOTL)
  • Leadership and Change (e.g., innovative practices and initiatives, individual and team support, power, and inclusivity).
  • Effective Technologies and Tools  (e.g., Useful APPS and other technologies to support pedagogical innovation, student engagement, accessibility, virtual reality, mixed/augmented reality).

  • Work-Life Balance (e.g., general strategies to help faculty succeed at Murray State University).

Submit Proposal: Blitz Week Proposal Form - Spring 2024

SUBMIT CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

GENERAL SESSION

 

 

Are you interested in facilitating a session that does not fit in any of the proposal categories below?

The Faculty Development Centers is open to individuals facilitating General Sessions other than the ones mentioned below.

You may submit a proposal to lead a session that is of interest to you and could be of interest to other faculty. Use the link provided below. 

Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/4CcThNvxcRPn5nvK6


INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS SERIES

 

Do you have a topic that you would like to discuss informally with others to gather insights or to share what you have learned?

You may submit a proposal to host Informal Conversations to promote substantive discourse about topics that are of interest to you and other faculty and could impact our students and faculty success.

Submit Proposal:
 https://forms.gle/kY7FFkBFJtJmmtRY6


 

LOVE OF LEARNING BROWN BAG LUNCH RESEARCH SERIES


Are you conducting or publishing research on teaching and learning? 


The Faculty Development Center is inviting individuals who are interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to submit proposals to facilitate Love of Learning Brown Bag Research sessions. 

Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/64D4oPjc6FtsSFcP7


STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING SERIES

 

Do you use a particular strategy or have seen a strategy used in innovative ways to facilitate learning? 

If you are aware of a strategy that could impact our students and faculty success, consider submitting a proposal to facilitate a Strategy for Teaching and Learning session.

Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/ajvkkFCA23F8nfht9


TEACHING WELL WITH TECHNOLOGY SERIES

 

Do you use technology to facilitate learning? Are you interested in sharing how one or more technologies have worked well to help your students learn?

You may submit proposals to facilitate sessions that will equip participants to use certain technologies in their courses to help students learn.

Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/ZRsgxgxp17d7a7F28


TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND SERVING WELL IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI

Generative Artificial Intelligence (a subset of AI) has the potential to transform how we teach, research, and serve. The Faculty Development Center is in the process of organizing a special series, titled Teaching, Researching, and Serving Well in the Age of Generative AI.

You are invited to submit a SHORT proposal (50 - 200 words) to facilitate a session in our upcoming Generative AI series. Your session will help to answer one or more of the following questions:

  1. What is Generative Artificial Intelligence (practical examples, pros and cons, opportunities and challenges for teaching, researching, and/or serving, etc.)?
  2. Why is Generative AI relevant to our teaching, research and/or service in this age?
  3. When should you use or avoid the use of Generative AI?
  4. Who have used or is exploring Generative AI in their teaching, research and/or service (e.g., best practices that you reviewed or practiced in your discipline)?
  5. How can we promote academic integrity in the age of Generative AI?
  6. How might we leverage Generative AI in the way we work?
  7. Where can we find helpful resources to help us make wise decisions related to Generative AI?

Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/Rh6WgubxT2pFGk4w9