Attend SITT 2024!
The 2024 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology returns to UC Davis this September, and we hope you will join us!
SITT 2024 will feature UC Davis faculty and staff during two half-days of live online presentations on the mornings of September 12 and 13. Select SITT participants will also create a 2024 library of on-demand talks and interviews available to watch at your convenience.
As faculty fortunate to teach California’s best university students, we recognize that our students have overcome significant barriers and taken on important challenges before stepping into our classrooms. This year’s theme, “Digital Divisions, Digital Multiplications,” spotlights not only the socio-economic disparities that result in our students’ past and current unequal access to learning technologies and resources, but also the guidance necessary for our students to use these tools effectively in the pursuit of their goals at the university and in their lives. Centering on the strategies, tools, and attitudes UC Davis’ best instructors use to multiply the effectiveness of educational technologies, SITT 2024 will showcase pedagogically innovative and student-focused faculty who are bridging digital divides for their students in every course they teach.
Details about SITT 2024, such as an agenda of speakers and topics, will be shared in the coming months, but please register in Zoom now and mark your calendars, so you can join us to gather strategies, exchange ideas, and contribute to the multiplying of digital affordances and advantages for our students.
Present at SITT 2024!
Would you like to share your own journey of helping students overcome digital divisions? Would you like to edify your faculty peers with stories of your attempts at scaling up, connecting meaningfully, or otherwise multiplying your effectiveness as a classroom leader? We invite you to contribute to this year’s SITT as a live or asynchronous presenter by submitting your talk proposal by Tuesday, May 21. Respond to this Google form with your brief write-up of 50-100 words to apply to share your teaching and technology challenges, solutions, and outcomes via a live presentation in September or a pre-recorded talk or interview to be shared on the SITT website the week of the event. We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics, perhaps including one or more of the following:
- Lessons learned from adapting your teaching for different modes and spaces that you found beneficial for your students or your workflows
- Approaches to student-centered teaching that helped your students engage with course materials and each other
- Uses of educational technologies, such as UC Davis Canvas, that helped students participate more actively in and out of the classroom
- Recommendations to help students to communicate more openly and consistently with their peers and instructors
- Techniques for using educational technology that allow you to multiply your impact or efficiency
Strategies you adopted while teaching remotely or with increased flexibility that you will continue to use - Examples of opportunities and challenges presented by teaching with emerging technologies, such as generative AI
An advisory committee of faculty and staff will review proposals and announce acceptances in early June, with additional presenter information to follow. We hope you’ll share at this year’s SITT!
If you have any questions about submitting a proposal or attending SITT 2024, or if you need accommodation to participate, please contact InstructionalDesign@ucdavis.edu to connect with an ATS staff member. Please submit any accommodation requests no later than August 30.
Thanks to the Academic Technology Services graphic design and illustration team for designing the SITT graphics each year, and especially to Matt Verdolivo for this year's visual.