Services

Learning Design and Technology for Teaching

We provide Canvas and instructional technology training prior to the beginning of each semester. Faculty are always welcome to contact the Head of Instructional Design to discuss Canvas LMS and other instructional design and technology questions. Access our Canvas LMS at https://canvas.rmc.edu; use your RMC email and password to sign in. We invite you to visit two resources on using Canvas:

• Create a Learner-friendly Canvas Course, a self-pace course focusing on pedagogical considerations and using technology tools for building your Canvas courses.
• Canvas tutorials and guides

We not only provide support on how to use and troubleshoot instructional technology systems, but also how they can be incorporated into course design to enhance learning and student engagement. The Head of Instructional Design & Technology consults with faculty on strategies and practices related to active learning, student collaboration, and assessment of learning. Faculty receive assistance in assignment design and exploring diverse ways for students to learn and demonstrate academic progress.

We have created the Teaching Toolkit website for faculty, which includes tutorials on technology tools by function and by pedagogical goal, a searchable FAQ database, and current books and articles on teaching and learning.

We would like to invite faculty to consider using Digital Storytelling to enhance student learning and engagement.

AI in Teaching and Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI), increasingly embedded in the technologies we use, can provides powerful support for educators and student learning, but it also increases risks. We intend to provide up-to-date resources to assist RMC faculty and students in learning about Generative AI and using it.

• Cornell Chronicle Writing With AI Help Can Shift Your Opinions
• EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Integrating Generative AI into Higher Education: Considerations
• Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence AI Will Transform Teaching and Learning. Let’s Get it Right
• The U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning
• University Policies on Generative AI: Collection of University Policies & Websites

AI Literacy

• Macalester College AI Literacy and Critical Thinking
• Ringling College Artificial Intelligence Resources

AI Tools

We caution that information uploaded or entered by the user to the AI system may not be protected. Therefore it is extremely important that the user does not provide confidential or private text, data, images or media while using AI tools; the user must also observe the copyright law. In addition, it is often unclear what data the AI models are trained on. The results generated by AI may be biased, inaccurate or made-up. Users are strongly encouraged to verify the output; please refer to the "AI Literacy" section on this page.

 Text Generation

• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com
• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com
• Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai

 Image Generation

• Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/
• DALL-E 3 through Bing Chat: https://www.bing.com/
• Firefly: https://firefly.adobe.com/

Contact: Lily Zhang