Presentations & Publications: 2024

December 03, 2024

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence partnered with coauthors Bo Pei (University of South Florida), Ying Cheng (Notre Dame), Eva Dziadula (Notre Dame), Wanli Xing (University of Florida), and Jie Lu (University of Georgia) on this study introducing LearningViz, an interactive learning analytics dashboard for instructors. Appeared in the journal Smart Learning Environments.

November 14, 2024

Kristi Rudenga, director of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, was recently a guest on Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning, a podcast from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. She and host Amanda Irvin discussed Rudenga’s recent article “How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students,” which appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

November 13, 2024

Alyssa Neece, senior video producer and editor in Notre Dame Learning’s Office of Digital Learning, presented at the eighth annual CAAVCon conference about their work with the Powerful Means Initiative in the Mendoza College of Business to create an immersive virtual reality experience for students in a design thinking course.

October 29, 2024

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and Arnon Hershkovitz and Tal Soffer of Tel Aviv University published a study of instructors and teaching assistants at a research university in Israel regarding their perceptions of the usefulness of data about student activity found on course websites. Appeared in the journal Education Sciences.

October 23, 2024

Steve Varela, director of teaching & learning technologies, presented a poster at the 2024 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference highlighting Notre Dame Learning’s resources related to AI, including the AI for Teaching and Learning video series. Co-authors of the poster, titled “Shaping AI Strategy for Faculty Development Through Instructional Design,” were Crystal DeJaegher, Sonia Howell, and Kuangchen Hsu.

October 21, 2024

In this study, Horane Diatta-Holgate of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and colleagues Aparajita Jaiswal, Ronald J. Smith, Pamala V. Morris, and Kris Acheson of Purdue University used the Beliefs, Events and Values Inventory (BEVI) instrument to assess the multicultural awareness development of undergraduates in an agriculture course focused on diversity and social justice. Appeared in Trends in Higher Education.

June 21, 2024

Horane Diatta-Holgate of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence published a chapter on “Underrepresented Voices in Intercultural Competence” in the newly released compilation Current Perspectives on Intercultural and Global Competence edited by Darla K. Deardorff and Mizuho Tatebayashi.

April 12, 2024

KC Frye and Kuangchen Hsu from Notre Dame Learning's Office of Digital Learning recently teamed up with Brian Mulholland of the University's Department of Mathematics to present at the OLC Innovate 2024 Conference in Denver. Their talk, which highlighted Notre Dame's ASCEND program, was titled “Building Belonging: Creating a Sense of Belonging Among Incoming First-Year Students Through a Pre-College Online Learning Experience.”