Faculty Instructional Technology and Strategies Institute   (FITSI)

2025 FITSI: Essential Skills and Digital Literacies in Higher Education

August 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00pm (on Zoom)

                    
Keynote – Chris Dede Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Topic: Join us for a pragmatic consideration of essential skills, including digital literacies, for USNH students. With keynote speaker Chris Dede, we'll examine the importance of preparing students for success in an everchanging world and discuss the role of generative AI in higher education. Our sessions will include explicitly teaching and assessing learner’s critical skills, demos of AI integration in the classroom, and specific AI tools supported at USNH. You'll also learn about a new digital ethics module for students as well as current recommendations and policy guidelines around generative AI use. This event focuses on empowering educators to equip students with essential competencies for the future of work and learning.

All USNH faculty and staff are encouraged to register here and join the conversations. Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event,

Stay tuned for a detailed agenda, which will be posted closer to the event.

Chris Dede is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was for 22 years its Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. From 2001-2004, he was Chair of the HGSE department of Teaching and Learning. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. In 2023 he was named a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium. In 2024 he was named a Scholar of the Immersive Learning Research Network.

In 2020 Chris co-founded the Silver Lining for Learning initiative (https://silverliningforlearning.org). He is currently an Advisor to the Alliance for the Future of Digital Learning, sponsored by the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiative (MBRGI). Also, Chris is a Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Research of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning and Online Education.

His most recent co-edited books include: Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education; Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in Education; Learning engineering for online education: Theoretical contexts and design-based examples; and The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy. His professional website is https://chrisdede.com