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Fall 2024 Semester Report

Fall 2024 Semester Report

Summary Fall 2024 saw 14,417 students, faculty, and staff use the Media Commons, Maker Commons, and Immersive Experiences Lab initiatives across the Commonwealth. Much of this use was focused in 360 classes in nearly every discipline offered at Penn State. To...
ENGL 015: Chatty Cookbooks

ENGL 015: Chatty Cookbooks

In English 15 at Penn State New Kensington, Dr Andrea Adolph asked her students to explore their identities through the lens of cuisine. Using Adobe Express, students created “chatty cookbooks” that allowed them to discover their cultural heritage, family...
IST 110: Paws & Prints on the Road

IST 110: Paws & Prints on the Road

Ashu Kumar asked his IST 110 students to take part in a MAKEiT activity, Paws & Prints as part of their exploration of generative AI through hands on activities. To bring this on the road, students received instruction in-class on how to engineer prompts to create...
Undergraduate Advisor Training in VirtualSpeech

Undergraduate Advisor Training in VirtualSpeech

The Lambert Undergraduate Advising Center at Penn State Harrisburg worked with the campus Center for Teaching Excellence to offer VirtualSpeech training as professional development to its staff on September 17. Participants used CTE-provided headsets with TLT’s...
IST 110: Can AI Play? on the Road

IST 110: Can AI Play? on the Road

Ashu Kumar asked his IST 110 students to collaborate with chat-based artificial intelligence to develop and document new board games created by mashing together rules and elements of existing favorites. 24 students participated in groups of four or five to design...