Fall 2024 CHP Conference

Commonwealth Honors Program

Conference on Honors Teaching and Learning

Friday, October 4, 2024 | 9:00am - 4:00pm | Claire T. Carney Library

The purpose of this one-day conference is to gather honors faculty and administrators for a day of learning, networking, and professional development in honors education. Faculty and administrators from all CHP campuses will be invited to submit proposals for presentation of case studies, evidence-based best practice in honors education, and innovative solutions to the challenges facing honors colleges and programs.

This event will include breakfast, lunch, presentations by CHP faculty and staff, and a keynote address by Dr. Christopher Dede. He will discuss using AI to augment Honors education in a talk entitled, "Complementing Human Minds with Digital Brains." 

Keynote and Session Slides

Keynote Presentation by Chris Dede:

Complementing Human Minds with Digital Brains: Intelligence Augmentation (IA)

Renato Fakhoury & Emma Peterson, UMass Lowell:

From Classroom to Community: Enhancing Undergraduate Research Through an Interdisciplinary Cohort Model

Dominick Usher, LizAnette Pérez-LeBoeuf, & Elena Carbone, UMass Amherst: 

Inclusive Honors Pedagogy from Advising to the Classroom

Chris Dede is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was for 22 years its Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. From 2001-2004, he was Chair of the HGSE department of Teaching and Learning. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. In 2023 he was named a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium.

In 2020 Chris co-founded the Silver Lining for Learning initiative. He is currently an Advisor to the Alliance for the Future of Digital Learning, sponsored by the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiative (MBRGI). Also, Chris is a Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Research of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning and Online Education.

His most recent co-edited books include: Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education; Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in Education; Learning engineering for online education: Theoretical contexts and design-based examples; and The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy.

Conference Schedule

All sessions will be held in the Claire T. Carney Library.

9:00-9:30a Registration and light breakfast Grand Reading Room
9:30-9:50a Welcome Grand Reading Room
10:00-10:55a Concurrent Session I Library (225, 226)
11:00-11:55a Concurrent Session II Library (225, 226)
12:00-12:45p Lunch Grand Reading Room
12:45-2:00p Dessert and Keynote Address Grand Reading Room
2:00-2:55p Concurrent Session III Library (225, 226)
3:00-3:55p Concurrent Session IV Library (225, 226)
4:00-4:10p Closing Remarks Library 225 & 226

Concurrent Sessions

Format

Title

Presenter(s)

Room

Roundtable

Critical AI Literacy and (Re)Designing Learning Outcomes to Showcase the Value of Honors 

Rae Mansfield, UMass Lowell Honors College

225

Individual Talk

HIP Honors: Incorporating High Impact Practices to benefit Community College Subpopulations

Anne Erickson, Berkshire CC Academic Advising                                                                                            Marcello Erickson, Mount Wachusett CC Academic Advising

226

Format

Title

Presenter(s)

Room

Roundtable

Teaching Honors Calculus for a Carve-out 10-15 Minute Class

Biyong Luo, UMass Dartmouth Mathematics Department

225

Individual Talk

Enhancing Undergraduate Research Through an Interdisciplinary Cohort Model 

Emma Peterson and Renato Fakhoury, UMass Lowell Honors College

226

Format

Title

Presenter(s)

Room

Roundtable

City as Text, City as Classroom: On Leading Faculty-led Honors Study Abroad Programs

Julian Zabalbeascoa, UMass Lowell Honors College

225

Individual Talk

Honors Education and Interdisciplinarity: An Examination of Honors education at UMass Amherst

Deepika Marya, UMass Amherst Honors College

226

Format

Title

Presenter(s)

Room

Roundtable

Inclusive Honors Pedagogy from Advising to the Classroom 

Dominick Usher, UMass Amherst Honors College

225

Individual Talk

Honoring Intellectual Risk-Taking: Pedagogical Problems and Practices 

Julie Bowman and Alexis Teagarden, UMass Dartmouth Department of English and Communication

226

Registration

Conference registration will open August 1st and close on October 1st.

Questions?

For more information, please contact honors@umassd.edu.

Stay the night (or two!) and make it a weekend in beautiful Southeastern Massachusetts

The south coast of the state is fun all year and very beautiful in the fall. Visit New Bedford, an historic, revitalized city that offers cobblestone streets and charming shops, wonderful restaurants, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Buttonwood Park Zoo, hiking, and much more. Or head just 45 minutes east to Cape Cod for seaside dining, art galleries, beach combing, and charming inns. Providence is just 30 minutes to our west, where you can enjoy galleries, art museums, fine dining, Roger Williams Park and Zoo, shopping, river cruises and boat tours, and more. Visit these helpful sites to see details on where to stay and what to do.
https://visitsemass.com/
https://www.capecodchamber.org/
https://www.goprovidence.com/

Acknowledgements

The UMass Dartmouth Dean's office gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions given in support of this conference by the following:
The Commonwealth Honors Council
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Provost's Office
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Office of Faculty Development