LRC Programming/ Events

DOING RESEARCH ON YOUR TEACHING: RESOURCES, TIPS, AND SUPPORT AT NORTHWESTERN

Join the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, Language Resource Center, Media and Design Studio and Council on Language Instruction in this online information session on available resources to assist language faculty with their research-focused professional activity. This information session will be the first of a series on this topic programmed for AY25-26.

Speaker: Denise Drane, PhD., Sr Associate Director of Research and Innovation, Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning.

GENERATIVE AI IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SERIES | AY24-25

1. "HANDS-ON WITH COPILOT" 

This workshop, focused on the use of Copilot from the instructor perspective, expanded on examples presented in a fall quarter seminar series by allowing participants to directly interact with various NU-approved generative artificial intelligence ("Gen AI") tools. Participants learned how to use AI to develop lesson plans and materials and to create and shape various forms of multimedia for teaching use.

2. "COPILOT FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS"

This workshop explored the potential uses of Copilot by your students, both for specific assignments and as a supplemental study aide. Our previous workshop on faculty use of Copilot provided an excellent opportunity to workshop ideas and to continue the conversation.

3. "STUDENT PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURES"

This is the final event of this year's deep dive into Artificial Intelligence and Language Instruction. The workshop will review the latest student perspectives in the use of AI for learning and assignments, as well as opinions about instructor's use of AI tools for the creation of teaching materials and assessments. This data will be used to brainstorm ideas for future curricular design. 

Presenter: mtaylor@northwestern.edu

The Academic Advisers Working Group (Office of the Provost's Undergraduate Advising)  creates resources and events to support and enhance the sense of belonging to an academic community. Lunch & Learn sessions are one point of connection, in which campus partners are invited to share information and resources from their offices with advisors. The Language Resource Center has been invited to facilitate the following sessions: 

• Navigating Language Pathways: Placement, Progression, and Proficiency at Northwestern | April 16, 2025
• Leveraging Language Learning on Campus and Beyond: Unlocking Career and Global Opportunities for Students | January 22, 2025 
• Language Study Orientation for Advisers | June 3, 2024
  

IMMERSION WEEK: GENERATIVE AI IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION 

The Language Resource Center, Media and Design Studio, Teaching and Learning Technologies, and Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning, in collaboration with the Council on Language Instruction, organized this dynamic professional development event to explore how generative AI can transform language instruction through four engaging and customized sessions for Northwestern faculty and graduate students.  The event  featured Dr. Kevin Gaugler,  a renowned expert in the field of AI and language instruction, as keynote speaker, as well as sessions on Northwestern AI policies and authorized tools, in-house presenters, a student panel and more!  

 RECORDINGS AND RESOURCES - IMMERSION WEEK: GENERATIVE AI IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION 

TLT CANVAS ACCESSIBILITY WORKSHOPS FOR WORLD LANGUAGE FACULTY

Teaching and Learning Technologies hosted and organized two workshops to help language faculty create accessible digital content in Canvas, as part of their Mission: Accessible challenge. 

BUFFETT FACULTY LUNCH ON MULTILINGUALISM