Workshops and Events

Spring 2026 Teaching Workshops

CATLOE's teaching workshops and benchwork sessions are highly interactive. They replicate active learning so you can experience what it might be like to use evidence-based strategies, methods, or techniques in your own classrooms. All of our events provide guided support for implementing what you’ve learned in your teaching.

Helping Students Use Generative AI to Support their Learning: A Benchwork Session

Wednesday, February 4, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Zoom
Registration deadline: February 2

A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes.  

We invite you to join us for this session to develop pedagogically sound strategies to help students use generative AI tools to support their learning in your courses. You will work through a series of guided steps to explore key strategies for designing activities and assignments that incorporate productive and thoughtful use of artificial intelligence.

Register for Helping Students Use Generative AI

Introduction to Generative AI: A Working Session for Beginners

Friday, February 13, 10:00 - 11:30 am 
Zoom
Registration deadline: February 11

A CATLOE working session is an opportunity to experience a specific pedagogical approach or tool with an eye to considering how it might be useful to you and your students.

We invite you to join us for this session to learn how instructors and students can access and use Generative AI interfaces that are readily available to them. If you haven’t previously played much (or at all) with Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, this working session is for you! We will cover the basics, such as accessing these platforms, prompt writing, and file sharing with AI.

Register for Introduction to Generative AI 

COIL Workshops - A Collaboration with CIEGS

COIL Faculty Panel on Intercultural Student Engagement and Inclusive Pedagogy

Friday, February 6, 9:30 - 10:30am
Zoom

This webinar is the first part of a CIEGS/CATLOE workshop focused on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning). COIL is SUNY’s flagship and internationally celebrated approach to Virtual Exchange, linking university classrooms across different countries to engage students in shared, project-based learning. In COIL-enhanced courses, student teams engage in active, applied learning and develop disciplinary and industry-connected knowledge, skills, and attitudes across their cultures and disciplines. Explore the benefits of COIL with three of UAlbany’s faculty who are experts in COIL.

• Véronique Martin, Ph.D., Lecturer II in French, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UNIHS Liaison, College of Arts and Sciences, UAlbany’s SUNY COIL Ambassador
• Mary O’Reilly, Ph.D., CIH, CPE, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Integrated Health Sciences
• Robert Yagelski, Ph.D., Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of English Education, Emeritus, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, School of Education, Founding Director of UAlbany’s Writing and Critical Inquiry Program    

After the panelists’ presentations, join in a Q&A/discussion moderated by UAlbany’s COIL Co-Coordinators: Annette Richie, Ph.D., Director of Global Learning: Engagement and Excellence, CIEGS and Sharon Hope, Ed.D., Instructional Designer, CATLOE.

Register for COIL Faculty Panel on Intercultural Student Engagement and Inclusive Pedagogy

COIL Project Design Workshop

Friday, March 6, 9:30 - 10:30 am
Zoom

This webinar is the second part of a CIEGS/CATLOE workshop focused on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning). Attendance at the first part is not required to participate in this session. Following a brief intro and COIL project demos by UAlbany faculty, attendees are invited to share student learning outcomes and an existing assignment from one of their courses. UAlbany’s COIL Co-Coordinators and Faculty will then coach attendees in creating the structure of a joint intercultural interdisciplinary project. Be sure to bring a course syllabus and assignment to the session with you!

Register for COIL Project Design Workshop

Brightspace Training Webinars

We do not currently have any webinars scheduled. Please visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos for focused guidance on using features in Brightspace. 

Vendor Demos and Training

Perusall Onboarding - Perusall and AI

Friday, February 13, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Zoom
Register for Perusall Onboarding - Perusall and AI

This session provides a walkthrough of Perusall and AI. We will cover how Perusall uses AI in platform, how to prevent student usage, and what analytics and metrics you have to help you see whether or not your students are authentically engaging with the course work.