Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

05/14/2025

Course (Re)Design is underway! In its 10th year, the Biggio Center's flagship program helps faculty from all disciplines create or re-envision one course in preparation for teaching in an active learning space. It's completely redesigned and reimagined this year, and over the next five days, faculty from across campus will engage to focus on their teaching. Here, "King" Adam Payne, Biggio Faculty Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Geosciences, introduces the next topic.

05/08/2025

🎙️📈 TigerBytes Episode 10 is LIVE! 📈🎙️

How did a global crisis reshape higher education? Join Dr. David Martin and Dr. Dave Ketchen as they explore how the COVID-19 pandemic pushed faculty to rethink their teaching—and how Auburn’s hospitality program evolved in response.

Hear how students are stepping up in their internships, gaining the adaptable, service-minded skills needed to lead in times of change.

04/24/2025

🎙️ TigerBytes Episode 9 is LIVE! 🎙️

What happens when cutting-edge online education meets the craft of brewing? Join guest David Martin as he dives into Auburn’s fully online Brewing Science & Operations Graduate Certificate—designed to equip aspiring brewers and beverage professionals from anywhere in the world.

Stick around to hear from Dr. Asim Ali, founding Director of Auburn Online and current Executive Director of the Biggio Center!

04/23/2025

The Biggio Center was proud to partner with remarkable Auburn University student leaders as we hosted representatives from Amazon Web Services Synovus and for the student-led AI Summit Tuesday evening!

Here are some takeaways that the 250 attendees enjoyed:
💡Charles Fullwood, Trisha Jaggi, and Mackenzie Saunders of shared about the career track and internship opportunities, as well as use cases in PGA, NFL, and Pfizer.
💡Katie Webb, Chief Digital & Experience Officer at and Auburn alumnae, shared practical and insightful advice on readiness to maximize career opportunities.
💡 Jeffrey Bigham, Director of human-centered machine intelligence and responsible AI at and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University shared about the thoughtful and innovative steps Apple takes to ensure the AI based solutions are doing the right thing.

Thanks to the AI@AU Initiative for their support.

04/23/2025

Mark your calendars for XR Summit 2025!

Join us for a full day of immersive experiences, expert panels, and hands-on demos exploring how Extended Reality (XR) is shaping the future of education, research, and technology—presented in partnership with the VR/AR Association.

This event is open to students, faculty, and industry professionals—whether you're curious about VR/AR, researching immersive tech, or just want to try the latest tools, there’s something for everyone!

📅 Thursday, May 1
🕗 8:00 a.m. – 3:50 p.m.
📍 Mell Classroom Building

04/17/2025

Mark your calendars for XR Summit 2025!

Join us for a full day of immersive experiences, expert panels, and hands-on demos exploring how Extended Reality (XR) is shaping the future of education, research, and technology—presented in partnership with the VR/AR Association.

This event is open to students, faculty, and industry professionals—whether you're curious about VR/AR, researching immersive tech, or just want to try the latest tools, there’s something for everyone!

📅 Thursday, May 1
🕗 8:00 a.m. – 2:50 p.m.
📍 Mell Classroom Building

04/15/2025

Don’t miss the First Annual Auburn AI Summit!

🗓️ Tuesday, April 22
📍 Auburn Hotel & Conference Center
⏰ 5:00–8:00 PM | Refreshments provided

Hosted by Auburn’s student-led Artificial Intelligence Initiative in partnership with AI@AU and the Biggio Center, this event will bring together industry professionals and AI experts to discuss emerging technology, ethical challenges, and security risks in AI.

🔹 Featuring speakers from Apple and Amazon Web Services!
🔹 Spots are limited—RSVP now! 👉 biggio.auburn.edu/events/ai-summit

Let’s shape the future of AI at Auburn!

04/11/2025

More pictures coming soon!

The journal Transformative Dialogues recently partnered with Auburn University for an entire special issue: “Cultivating a Blossoming SoTL Culture.”

This issue features the work of 61 authors representing nearly every college on campus. There are several articles that were authored by HCOP faculty with Dr. Kimberly Garza serving as one of the editors for the issue. Check out the issue online: https://journals.psu.edu/td.

This week, many of the contributors came together for an event hosted by the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning to celebrate the collective achievement and engage with faculty, staff, and student authors.

Pictured are just some of the HCOP authors in attendance, including Dr. Lindsey Mosely, Dr. Erika Kleppinger, Dr. Courtney Alexander, Dr. Lindsey Doukopoulos (Biggio Center Associate Director for Educational Development), Dr. Kimberly Garza, Dr. Lena McDowell, and Dr. Asim Ali (Executive Director of the Biggio Center).

04/11/2025

Congratulations to superb Biggio Center student employees, Abigail Starace and Shuqi Du, for being recognized and nominated as Student Employees of the Year. Our work and impact would not be possible without the incredible work of our talented student employees! Abigail was nominated by Nikki Shubert, and Shuqi was nominated by Dr. Wendy Cooper.

04/10/2025

🎙️🏗️ TigerBytes Episode 8 is LIVE! 🏗️🎙️

We’re back with David Hinson, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction! In this episode, David explores how his course prepares students for a rapidly evolving profession while fostering engaging, interactive learning experiences.

Discover the strategies and tools he uses to build futures and ignite minds!

04/09/2025

Struggling with grading and providing consistent feedback? ✍️ Join us on tomorrow from 12:45 - 1:45 PM in ACLC 259 for an interactive session on Gradescope!

Whether you're familiar with bubble sheets or new to the platform that can grade thousands of handwritten assessments, we'll walk you through: ✅ Assignment creation ✅ Rubric building ✅ Grading and feedback release

💻 Bring your laptop and get hands-on experience with all Gradescope has to offer!

Register here: https://biggio.auburn.edu/events/gradescope-for-beginners

04/08/2025

Join us tomorrow from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Auditorium @ RBD for a XR Faculty Learning Community! Whether you're already using or curious about virtual, augmented, or mixed reality in your work, come connect with others and discover new ways to integrate XR into your teaching. Lunch will be provided!

Register here: https://biggio.auburn.edu/events/xr-flc1