Faculty Events

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our Faculty Forum on Friday, October 17th on AI as a Teaching and Tutoring Tool. We were thrilled that 81 people attended this event, our greatest participation since immediately after the release of the tool ChatGPT.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, October 17th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on GenAI as a Teaching and Tutoring Tool. We hope you will join us.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our DOLCE on Friday, October 3rd, 2025. With more than ten seasons of DOLCE behind us, we now look forward to every fall when we can welcome back two presenters and DOLCE audience regulars and newcomers.

This October we called upon two seasoned presenters from Evolution and Ecology, Susan Keen and Laci Gerhart, both fonts of innovation, wisdom, and sustained teaching excellence for many years.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome back to campus and to teaching at UC Davis! Fall is always an exciting time for the ATS instructional design team because of the new faculty and faculty ideas that we encounter at our first events of the school year.

Please register now to join us Friday October 3rd at noon for our October DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much for your interest in the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT)! I am pleased to announce that faculty and support staff can now view recordings of all the Live Talks from SITT 2025.  

Dear UC Davis Friends and Colleagues,

Unexpectedly gifted with a couple of minutes to riff during a SITT interview, I reflected on my nearly spotless SITT participation record over the last 30 years. You might be able to intuit from my rambling reflections that I treasure SITT and the overlapping communities of practice (and communities of friends!) that we have created together since 1995.

If you haven’t done so already, please plan to join us at SITT 2025.

Best,

Andy Jones
Host, SITT 2025

As we prepare for the 30th edition of our yearly Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, scheduled for September 11–12, 2025, the SITT coordinating committee and advisory committee are happy to share the growing number of faculty interviews that are now available for viewing on The Wheel. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who participated in our May 16th Faculty Forum on Preparing for SITT 2025 and Considering the IET Five-Year Plan.

The attending faculty talked about their past experiences of the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, and their brief responses to IET plans for the coming half-decade.

Enjoy both this short preview and the full recording of our May 16th Faculty Forum.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, May 16th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on two topics:

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our May 2nd DOLCE on teaching undergraduates to create collaborative independent research projects with Google Slides (Whitney Duim from Chemistry), as well as using generative AI to summarize peer comments on collaborative projects in Biomedical Engineering classes (by Jennifer Choi).