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Events, Workshops, and Communities

WMUx hosts a variety of events and communities throughout the academic year. These Â鶹´«Ã½ are geared toward instructors, graduate assistants, and any others involved in creating learning experiences at Â鶹´«Ã½. Can't make it to an event? No problem! Check out our past event archive, which includes materials shared during the session and/or a session recording.

Do you not see what you are looking for here, or would you like a training or event more specific to your needs? 

Our team is available to come to a department or group meeting to facilitate specific or targeted teaching and learning training. Reach out and let us know what challenges you are hoping to solve for instructors, learners, or both and we can support you by connecting you with resources and facilitating conversations around curriculum, course design, or instructional best practices. These can be single meetings or extended workshops depending on your goals.  

Contact the WMUx Teaching and Learning Team to discuss your needs.

Upcoming Events

AI @ WMU

Generative AI and Your Copyrights: A campus discussion

Date:  Tuesday, November 12     Time:  12 p.m.      Location: Online

Join Ed Eckel from the University Libraries for a 60-minute interactive discussion on a critical issue in academic publishing: How scholarly publishers are selling faculty work to AI companies for training large language models (LLMs). Explore the implications for copyright, author consent, and the commercialization of academic scholarship. Discuss potential faculty and institutional responses to this evolving practice. 
 
Key topics include: 
  • Copyright in the age of AI 
  • Author rights and consent 
  • The changing role of academic publishers 
  • Strategies for protecting scholarly work 
Please come prepared to share your perspectives and learn from colleagues.

Post-Election Virtual Meet-up for WMU Faculty, Instructors, and Graduate Instructors

Date:  Thursday, November 14     Time:  12 p.m.      Location: Online

Join the Office of Faculty Development for a virtual gathering to discuss how we can continue to support one another and our Â鶹´«Ã½s in the period following the 2024 election.  

Course Design and Development

Preparing for Next Semester with the Functional Course Design Checklist

Date:  Wednesday, December 4     Time:  noon and 6 p.m.      Location: Online

Join WMUx Instructional Design for a 30 minute Ask Me Anything (AMA) Session about performing a functional review of your course. In this short session, Instructional Designers will share the Functional Course Design Checklist and answer questions about various ways course accessibility, navigation, interaction, and alignment might be improved in preparation for future semesters.