Faculty Series on Teaching and Learning
Eberly Center Weekly Office Hours
Tuesdays, 11am-12pm ET
Tepper Quad 1309
Need help solving a teaching problem? Want to chat about a new strategy? Curious about Eberly services or resources? Drop in during office hours for a casual conversation with a teaching consultant.
No registration required.
Generative AI Teaching as Research (GAITAR) Initiative Talks: GAITAR@Scale Results
Teaching Generative AI Competency Via Evidence-Based Online Modules
Remote via Zoom (link will be shared with registered participants)
To develop students’ generative AI competency, i.e., their ability to use genAI effectively and ethically, we designed short, asynchronous online modules for any CMU instructor to use. Join us to learn about the modules and discuss positive results from implementation in 53 CMU courses!
Impacts of Students’ Generative AI use on Writing Skills
Tepper Quad 1308
Zoom link will be shared with registered participants
Join us to discuss how students can leverage genAI as a feedback partner to enhance their writing or self-efficacy, guided by results from our large scale study of 28 CMU first-year writing courses.
What You Need to Know About… (Seminar Series)
These new 50-minute sessions are designed to provide instructors with essential foundations and practical strategies on key teaching and learning skills. Fall 2025 topics include:
Lesson Planning
Tepper Quad 1309
Zoom link will be shared with registered participants
You’re teaching in a few days and you’re not sure what you’re going to do. Time to make a lesson plan! In this session we’ll discuss and practice designing lessons based on research about effective teaching methods.
Giving Feedback
Zoom link will be shared with registered participants
Tepper Quad 1309
Spotlight on Innovative CMU Teaching
Remote Via Zoom (link will be shared with registered participants)
What innovative teaching strategies are your colleagues using? Through short presentations and lively, informal roundtable discussions, this series highlights innovative, transferable methods that CMU faculty, postdoc, and graduate student instructors are using to enhance student learning. Speakers from across disciplines will present applied examples. Attendees can expect to dialogue with colleagues and leave with practical strategies they can implement in their own classrooms.
Special Interest Group: Universal Design for Learning
In person, Eberly Center
Universal Design for Learning is a framework for how all aspects of course design and delivery can be made more inclusive for all students. The UDL approach is inspired by the “curb cut effect,” which describes how changing infrastructure to accommodate one type of physical disability ultimately benefits everyone. Similarly, if we design our courses with accessibility in mind from the beginning, we will create courses where all students thrive.
The breadth of the framework–with more than 30 considerations across 9 domains, each with many different possible implementation strategies–makes it powerful, but it can also make it overwhelming when you are first getting started! These sessions are intended to serve as a guided path into UDL. You will leave with a deeper understanding of what UDL is and some specific ways you can incorporate it into your own teaching.
Recurring Signature Eberly Center Programs
Incoming Faculty Orientation
Incoming Faculty Orientation is a university-wide program brought to you by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty in partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Education and the Eberly Center. This multi-day event, held annually the week before fall classes begin, provides opportunities to meet other new faculty, learn about evidence-based teaching practices as well as CMU students, policies, and norms, and explore what support CMU provides to faculty. For more information and registration details please visit the Incoming Faculty Orientation webpage.
Teaching and Learning Summit
This highly interactive event is designed to...
- foster dialogue, networking, and collaboration within and across disciplines.
- showcase the transferable, evidence-based, and innovative teaching strategies employed by CMU instructors of all types.
- disseminate the educational research of CMU instructors and learning scientists.
Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellowship
PITF supports the adoption of inclusive teaching techniques by CMU faculty of any rank by working closely with the Eberly Center to iterate on a CMU course they are actively teaching. Fellows also meet one or twice per month as a special interest group to explore research and strategies on inclusive teaching. See more info and examples on the PITF website.
Wimmer Faculty Fellowship for the Development of Teaching
Wimmer Fellowships provide resources and Eberly Center support to junior faculty designing or redesigning a course by innovating course materials and/or pedagogical approaches. Each Fellow works in close collaboration with Eberly Center colleagues to design, implement, and assess the impacts of their innovations.
Teaching as Research Institute:
Can generative AI tools enhance student learning?
Are you wondering how generative AI tools might enhance student learning and equity in CMU courses? Join a community of instructor-scholars brainstorming how to apply generative AI tools in their teaching AND measure the impacts on student learning! Prior experience with AI or educational research is NOT required.
This 4-session program will help you generate ideas for teaching innovations AND prepare to study them in your own CMU course, with tangible Eberly Center support from start to finish. Participants will:
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- Design a generative AI teaching intervention to implement and investigate,
- Identify data sources to measure student learning,
- Design a study to conduct in your course, and
- Exit with an action plan, including Eberly support, that you could submit as a Teaching as Research Fellowship proposal.
Teaching as Research Fellowship: Generative AI
Generative AI Teaching as Research (GAITAR) Fellows receive a $5000 award and copious in-kind support from a team of Eberly Center colleagues to:
- implement a teaching innovation using a generative AI tool in a Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 CMU course;
- measure the impacts of the innovation on student learning; and
- disseminate findings at CMU and beyond.
Fellows also participate in a special interest group of instructor-scholars meeting several times per semester to discuss their successes, challenges, and lessons learned teaching with generative AI tools.
See more information on the GAITAR Fellowships here...
Prior experience with generative AI or educational research is NOT required.
All CMU instructors of record are eligible to apply.
Instrumented, Technology-enhanced, Active Learning Classrooms
Proposal due date: TBD
Program duration: up to one semester of class sessions
The Eberly Center provides two instrumented technology-enhanced, active learning classrooms in the Tepper Quad. These rooms are designed to capture rich data on classroom interactions and behaviors that can be used for (a) formative feedback on your teaching and your students’ learning, (b) exploring the effect of a new technology or pedagogy you wish to incorporate in your course, (c) conducting educational research in a real class setting, and more! Faculty work closely with Eberly colleagues to design and implement their proposed use of an instrumented classroom as well as to collect, interpret, and apply any data collected.
For more info: see examples of use cases and the classroom request form
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