NWACC Instructional Technology Roundtable 2024 

Humanizing Education
November 6-8, 2024
Courtyard City Center, 550 SW Oak St Portland, OR 97204

Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Keynote: Michelle Pacansky-Brock: What Humanizing Means Now

As we move forward from COVID, we continue to see increases in loneliness and burnout. With more students opting for online classes and AI capsizing our traditional approaches, emotions are piqued among faculty, staff, and students. How do we best support teaching and learning through this era of disruption and uncertainty? This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of humanizing, an instruction model scaling in California, and couch it within our current challenges to help us collectively identify what humanizing means to higher education now.

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