Workshops and Events

The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers teaching workshops and seminars to help interested faculty, teaching assistants and instructors improve their teaching effectiveness and course management skills. These training programs provide opportunities to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, interact, learn about and reflect on a number of topics to enhance teaching and learning.

Our list of programming is constantly growing. Make sure to check out past and future offerings.

Your feedback is very valuable to us. The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching welcomes feedback, suggestions and requests for workshops; email: CELT@uml.edu.

For Information Technology (IT) sponsored workshops, please visit the IT Trainings / Workshops page.

Video Recordings

Winter 2025

• Evidence-Based Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged and Attentive in Both Small and Large Classes.
• Beyond Traditional Grading: Ungrading Strategies and Collaborative Rubric Design.
• Incorporating In-Class Activities to Increase Knowledge Retention and Student Engagement.
• Flexibility in Practice: Practical Solutions for Complex Requests.

Fall 2024

What to Talk About When We Talk About Cheating Summit:

• Opening Remarks.
• Keynote: Who's Cheating Who? Reconsidering the Value Proposition of Generative AI, Higher Education & The Way We See Students. Speaker: Lance Eaton.
• 1st Panel: Who Can It Be Now? Confronting the Complexities of Cheating in College. Panelists: Elizabeth Altman, Keith Mitchell, Charles Thomas Wilkes and Students: Adjoa Adjepong and Himani Pareshbhai.
• 2nd Panel: The Impact off AI on Campus Integrity and Academic Success. Panelists: Michael Black, Leslie Farris, Romy Guthier, Karen (Jingrong) Lin, Donna Mellen and Student Nadia Sahila.
• 3rd Panel and Closing Remarks: Managing and Mentoring Academic Integrity at UMass Lowell: A Campus-Wide Approach. Panelists: Stephanie Block, Amit Deokar, Wael Kamal, Shaina Roy.

Summer 2024

• Setting the Stage for Effective Learning
• Designing Project-Based Assignment Learning
• Teaching Students How learning Works: Transform Your Student Learners to Master 5 Effective Learning Strategies
• Assessing Project-Based Learning Assignments
• Gradescope: A Tool for Grading Paper-Based Exams/Assignments & A Scantron Alternative for Multiple Choice (MCQ) Questions 

Winter 2024

• Access Ally Training
• What is a Permalink: Finding & Using Copy-Righted Cleared Materials

Summer 2023

• Facilitating Community in the Classroom
• High-Impact Pedagogies in Practice: Introduction to Service-Learning
• Creating Service Learning Assignments for Any Course Level
• How to Provide Individuated Instruction and SURVIVE
• A 2023 Learner Centered Syllabus
• Providing Meaningful Feedback to Students

Spring 2023

• CELT ChatGPT Conversation
• CELT ChatGPT Follow Up Conversation

Winter 2023

• Designing for Equity in the Classroom
• The Library: Open Access and You
• The Syllabus as an Invitation

Fall 2022

• Pause to Notice: The Role of Contemplation in Critical and Creative Endeavors

Summer 2022

• How Universal Design Supports Learning & Equity
• 8+ Ideas to Incorporate Universal Design into your Classrooms
• Strategies for Teaching the Class of 2026
• Student Roundtable -10 Ways Faculty Can Support Student Success
• Using Metacognitive Learning Strategies in the Classroom
• Navigating Student Identities in the Classroom
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Every Discipline

Spring 2022

• Neurodiversity in Higher Education (Part 1)
• Embracing Strength and Facing Practical Challenges of Neurodiversity in Higher Education (Part 2)
• Mentoring: Setting Yourself and Your Students Up for Success
• Launch@UML Teaching Efficiency: UML Resources for Effective and Efficient Classrooms

Previous Workshops

Looking for a topic that was discussed in previously? Explore all previous CELT Workshops:

• Winter 2021
• Summer 2021
• Summer 2020