Teaching & Learning at CSUSM

The Four Key Goals

"What is it that you hope every CSUSM college student experiences as a learner on this campus?" The Teaching and Learning Group, a cross-divisional group Co-sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Faculty Center, identified the following four key goals:

• Inspires educational experiences that develop every student’s  intrinsic desire to learn.
• Helps students develop skills to facilitate their own learning process so that they become agents of their own learning.
• Fosters real-world application of knowledge to local and global societal and economic challenges. 
• Recognizes the academic and personal struggles associated with learning and provides a network of resources to address those struggles as students work toward academic success

Generative AI and Teaching

To support faculty education about Generative AI, the Faculty Center directors have developed a Faculty Guidance and Suggestions on Generative AI resource to introduce some basic information relevant for teaching. This is a "living document" that the center directors will update as needed as campus policies develop and new technologies become available.

The Chancellor's Office for the CSU offers a course on “Artificial Intelligence Tools for Teaching & Learning" enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis; register for Artificial Intelligence Tools for Teaching & Learning

Additionally, SDSU’s Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential is now available to all CSU faculty no matter campus affiliation. AAAI prepares you to apply generative AI (gAI) technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically to level up learning in the classes you teach. 

Support at the Faculty Center

To support teaching and learning at CSUSM, the Faculty Center provides a variety of resources:

Classroom Management 

Our Faculty Guidance and Suggestions on Classroom Management handbook curates information from across campus into a single one-stop resource on a range of services, policies, and supports on working with students and classroom management. We cover academic integrity resources, classroom conduct, and classroom climate.

The Faculty Center Associate Director of Teaching and Learning

In addition to organzing Faculty Learning Communities on teaching and learning, Summer Teaching Institutes, and one-off workshops, the Faculty Center Associate Director of Teaching and Learning also provides one-on-one appointments with faculty members to discuss issues regarding teaching and learning on campus. 

Faculty Center Events Faculty Center Directors Appointments

Annual Teaching & Learning Expo

A Celebration of Teaching Excellence at CSUSM

Save the date May 2, 2025

• Details forthcoming later in the academic year!