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Office of IDEAS

Training Opportunities

Below you will find our upcoming workshops and training opportunities. Please register to attend the sessions that interest you.
Don't see what you need or can't attend during the scheduled time? Let us know and an Instructional Designer can meet individually with you.

Department Chairs: The IDEAS Instructional Designers are available to come to your next department meeting (or other scheduled time) to train your faculty. Here's a list of potential topics we can present to your group: Project Based Learning; Active Learning Tools (options include Flip, Perusall, Jamboard); any and all aspect of Canvas including course building, mobile app, templates, new quizzes; What's New with Zoom; Academic Integrity; Digital Badging; and, Panopto (recording, uploading, Zoom integration, adding quizzes and additional content).

Interested? Shoot us an email at ideas@mail.fresnostate.edu.

Spring 2025 AI Workshop Series

This workshop series is a mix of topical, discussion-based sessions and hands-on how-to sessions about generative AI tools and is  open to Fresno State faculty and staff.

  • Preparing Students for an AI-Enabled Future - February 5, 2:00 p.m. | March 12, 10:00 a.m.
    Explore how to prepare students for a world shaped by AI, focusing on career readiness, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Gain practical strategies to integrate AI literacy into your teaching and empower students for success.
  • Navigating the Intersection of AI & Equity - February 6, 2:00 p.m. | March 13, 10:00 a.m.
    Examine how AI can perpetuate bias and how it may address systemic bias in higher education. Strategize how to leverage AI responsibly while keeping equity and access at the center of education.
  • Creating Learning Content with AI - February 26, 2:00 p.m. |  March 5, 10:00 a.m.
    Learn strategies for creating a variety of learning content to enhance courses and training programs, including: quiz questions, case studies, and assignments.
  • AI & Universal Design for Learning - February 28, 1:30 p.m.
    Explore AI tools that support the integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into your learning design to foster accessibility, engagement, and personalized learning experiences.

  • AI Playtime: Magic School AI - March 3, 3:00 p.m.
    Dive into a hands-on session exploring Magic School AI, a platform designed to assist educators with lesson planning, content generation, and instructional support.

  • AI Playtime: NotebookLM - March 10, 3:00 p.m.
    Discover how NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered research assistant, can help streamline note-taking, organization, and synthesis of information for teaching and learning.

  • AI Playtime: Microsoft Copilot March 17, 3:00 p.m.
    Experiment with Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows across various applications in education and research.

  • Innovating Collegiate Writing in the Age of AI - April 2, 2:00 p.m.
    Unpack the evolving role of writing in higher education with AI. This session will challenge traditional writing assignments and explore how AI can be leveraged for critical thinking, revision, and research while maintaining academic integrity.

  • Research Engineering with AI - April 4, 10:00 a.m.
    Explore AI-driven research methodologies and tools that can enhance academic inquiry, literature reviews, data analysis, and the research writing process.

Register for AI Workshop Sessions

DISCOVERe Essentials

DISCOVERe Essentials is a self-paced online training required for faculty who wish to be certified to offer DISCOVERe-tagged classes.

The training features online modules with some flexible in-person sessions required.

Self-Enroll in DISCOVERe Essentials

 

Open Ed Week 2024

Open Educational Resources is a self-paced course to introduce faculty participants learn to create, reuse, remix, redistribute, revise, and retain open-licensed content to combat course material costs and improve content relevance for students. 

Self-enroll in Open Educational Resources course

Growing with Canvas

Growing with Canvas is a self-paced online tutorial for faculty who are new to using Canvas LMS who prefer to learn on their own, can't attend face-to-face workshops, or would like to review how to accomplish a certain task.

Self-Enroll in Growing with Canvas

 

 

You may also want to enroll in the Faculty Toolbox to get the latest information and suggestions from the Office of IDEAS: https://fresnostate.instructure.com/enroll/CLR7ER 

 

Organizational Excellence

Organizational Excellence creates and leads organizational and professional development programs designed to nurture a culture of change, continuous improvement, and innovation and build organizational and individual capacities within the Fresno State community. We support efforts to pursue excellence as a learning organization committed to innovation,  improvement, workplace quality and wellness. We create opportunities to collaborate, innovate and develop in order to encourage learning, facilitate engagement and build community.

Fresno State is committed to developing our employees by providing training opportunities that will help participants LEARN personal and professional leadership skills, IMPROVE Fresno State and reduce administrative burden, SHARE ideas for improvements, innovations, and best practices, and CELEBRATE accomplishments, years of service, and success stories.

Visit the Organizational Excellence website

 

Panopto

Panopto has many recorded webinars that start with the basics and move on to more advanced features.

Perusall Academy

Perusall Academy offers three different educational webinars, each hosted by a Perusall expert.

    • Kickstart
    • Next Level
    • Mastery

 

  • CSU Learn
    • CSU Learn is Fresno State's one-stop shop for on-campus and cross-campus learning opportunities.

  • Microsoft 365 Training Library
    • Access tutorials and templates for a range of Microsoft Office products such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and One Note.
  • Office of Organizational Excellence
    • Organizational Excellence creates and leads organizational and professional development programs designed to nurture a culture of change, continuous improvement, and innovation and build organizational and individual capacities within the Fresno State community.

  • Fresno County Public Library

    • Anyone with a Fresno County address can sign up for a Fresno County Public Library card electronically, to get immediate access to electronic resources and ebooks. To check out physical items, you will need to visit an FCPL branch to activate your account.

      FCPL digital resources include Mango Languages, Kanopy, Overdrive eBooks, Peterson's Test Prep (online test prep/practice tests including GRE), and several digitized local history collections. If you don't live in Fresno County, check your local public library system's online resources. All libraries in the San Joaquin Valley Library System (SJVLS) allow residents of their services areas to sign up for an electronic card online, and many offer access to their online resources.

      FCPL Resource Spotlight: LinkedIn Learning

      LinkedIn Learning is an online tutorial service available through FCPL. It offers thousands of videos teaching everything from Adobe Photoshop to Microsoft Word & Powerpoint to Business and Finance.