> [!summary]+ Summary > The purpose of this presentation was to connect with faculty and leadership at the largest college/school on campus and both inform them about our plans to support their digital fluency as well as identify faculty who may 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 myself and my colleague, the Director of Faculty Development, as part of our efforts to bring awareness to our plans to launch a joint digital fluency initiative, as well as generate enthusiasm for participating among faculty. We delivered this presentation to the leadership and faculty of the [GWU Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)](https://columbian.gwu.edu/) at their June 2023 faculty meeting. 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 that the emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) was furthering this. We felt that faculty seeing this perspective from the library, as well as the team support we could offer, might entice them join our efforts. 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 engaging in CDI this year or who had in previous years. And in it, they would partner with our staff to create new digital projects that were pedagogically sound as well as technically innovative. The reaction was mixed. Some criticized genAI as well as the university's Adobe Creative Campus status. Others approached us immediately after 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 advertise my work and department 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 steady summer cohort of faculty guided by staff from my unit and other teams.