#presentation #digital-fluency #faculty > [!summary]+ Summary > The purpose of this presentation was to connect with faculty and leadership at the largest academic unit on campus, inform them about our plans to support their digital fluency, and identify faculty who might want to work with us. # Digital Fluency at GWU: Enhancing Teaching with Digital Projects **Delivery details:** <u>Date</u>: June, 2023 <u>Target audience</u>: GWU CCAS leadership and faculty <u>Delivery format</u>: In-person <u>Duration</u>: 30 minutes ## About the presentation This presentation was delivered by my colleague and me, the Director of Faculty Development, to raise awareness of our plans to launch a joint digital fluency initiative. Additionally, we wanted to generate enthusiasm among faculty for participating in the program with us and our teams. We delivered this presentation in June 2023 to the leadership and faculty of the [GWU Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)](https://columbian.gwu.edu/). As seen on the third slide, we leaned into highlighting how our collective COVID-19 remote teaching/work experience had changed the higher education landscape and how the emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) was furthering this. We felt that faculty seeing this perspective from the library, along with the team support we could offer, might entice them to work with us. During this talk, we introduced the idea of a **digital projects cohort** to follow the very popular Course Design Institute (CDI). (CDI is a 5-day program where faculty explore topics such as student motivation, learning assessment, building active learning, evaluating feedback, and drafting a new syllabus.) This program would be available to faculty participating in CDI the current year, as well as those who had participated in previous years. And in their participation, they would partner with our staff to create new digital projects that were both pedagogically sound and technically innovative. The reaction was mixed. Some criticized genAI as well as the university’s Adobe Creative Campus designation. Others approached us immediately after the presentation and asked to work with us. ## Slide deck <div class="container"><iframe class="responsive-iframe-sd" src="https://1drv.ms/b/c/13829E5D2EB238DE/IQQW_VX5seC1S7ivtvt-ybFEAQioZOqnOQmXNrbHmoq46FQ" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div> *Note: These slides were built with a custom slide deck that I made using Microsoft PowerPoint. Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) was not used to develop this presentation. All stock images were provided by [Adobe Stock](https://stock.adobe.com).* ## 🎯 Results This presentation helped helped promote my department’s work to the largest college at GW, as well as launched the first Digital Project Cohort of the Course Design Institute (CDI) in GW Libraries and Academic Innovation (LAI). This became a recurring summer cohort of faculty guided by staff from my unit and other teams.