Co-Directors Susan Phillip and Javiela Evangelista welcome you to the 2025 Living Lab General Education Seminar home page! Please see below for information on the upcoming seminars. Thanks for visiting!
2025 Seminar
Welcome!
We invite you to apply for our next Living Lab General Education Seminar which will take place during Winter 2025 intercession, helping you sharpen your General Education skills to enhance student learning in your courses.
Meetings schedule
Our 2025 seminar will be held in-person and online (using Zoom) from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. We will meet in-person twice: First, weather permitting, for a place-based learning experience and second for final presentations. Seminar topics include Open Digital Pedagogy, Assessment, and Place-Based Learning. Our dates are*:
- Meeting 1: Tuesday, January 14 (In-person)
- Meeting 2: Wednesday, January 15 (In-person)
- Meeting 3: Thursday, January 16
- Meeting 4: Tuesday, January 21
- Meeting 5: Wednesday, January 22 (In-person: Place-based learning)
- Meeting 6: Thursday, January 23 (In-person: Final presentations)
*please note: all scheduled meetings must be attended. If any participant will have to miss any of the meetings, they will be asked to withdraw from the seminar and will be invited for the next cycle
Description
Our general education focus for this seminar will coincide with the 2025-26 AIRE General Education Assessment and we ask participants to select one of the following Student Learning Goals:
- Oral Communication
- Quantitative Literacy
- Reading
- Writing
Participants will re-design an existing project or assignment or create a new one targeting one of these selected student goals. Participants will implement the assignment in Spring 2025 and share the results of their implementation along with their assignment/project on L4: Living Lab Learning Library. Completion of these deliverables will be acknowledged by a Certificate of Participation in the seminar and, for our PT participants, a stipend (18 hours at their non-teaching rate). FT faculty’s participation and completion of the seminar is considered important and valued department service towards enhancing General Education in disciplines.
*please note: if participants are not able to implement their activity in Spring 2025 due to not teaching the course for which an activity will be created, they will then submit their reflections on General Education Seminar participation to the co-directors, along with the L4 post of the proposed activity
