Summer Institute

Summer Institute offers interested faculty members opportunities to engage in professional development alongside colleagues in an intensive and focused environment about a topic of their choice. Summer Institute sessions are facilitated by TIDL faculty and staff.

Summer Institute 2026

Choose Your Own Adventure!

Summer Institute is back again for 2026, and it’s a Choose Your Own Adventure kind of summer! Read the options below and fill out the registration form by Sunday June 21st!

Academic Integrity Strategies

This institute option is for teachers that want to adapt assignments and course design to reduce AI misuse. We’ll develop clear course and assignment AI policies, practice effective AI use conversations with students, and develop a strong foundation for effective academic integrity reporting.

Upping Your Video Game: Making videos with Impact!

This Summer Institute session will focus on planning, executing, and using short and longer instructional videos in your courses to support student connection and promote concept mastery.

Book Club: The Science of Learning Meets AI: A Practical Faculty Guide to Purposeful Integration, Student Engagement, and Ethical Practice

Join our summer book club to explore teaching and learning in the context of AI while striving to maintain evidence-based inclusive teaching practices.

Previous Summer Institutes

2025 Summer Institute: All About AI

Summer Institute is back again for 2025, and it’s All About AI!

This summer, Highline Faculty can choose one of THREE options to participate in:

Option 1: Dipping Your Toes Into AI: Using the Auburn Course
Option 2: Redesigning Curriculum to Support AI Digital Literacy Skill Development
Option 3: Instructor Power Tools: Using the Power of AI to Support Teaching

Read about each Summer Institute Option in detail here (Highline login required).

2024 Summer Study Session: The RSI Enigma

Why is “regular and substantive interaction” so effusive? Could it be that RSI looks a lot like the wiring diagram of an enigma machine?

Well, even the enigma code was cracked. And if the enigma code can be cracked, then we can crack RSI! During this summer study session, we’ll investigate what RSI means and what it looks like and embed RSI strategies into our upcoming online courses. At the end of the first week in fall quarter, you’ll buddy up and participate in a self-check on your RSI practices and receive a stipend.

Objectives:

identify the different parts of RSI,
examine the various strategies to implement RSI in online courses,
incorporate RSI strategies into an upcoming online course,
use active learning strategies that engage students *and* meet RSI standards, and
review a colleague’s use of RSI.

Deliverable: Peer review a colleague’s RSI plan for RSI practices by September 27, 2024.

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