UB’s Graduate School of Education has partnered with GiGi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center of Buffalo to provide UB students with in-classroom experience teaching students with disabilities. UB students were photographed at the center working with clients in July 2021. GSE professor Claire Cameron is working with the program.

CATT News & Updates

Featuring teaching tips and stories highlighting teaching and assessment innovations happening around UB.

Latest News & Updates

  • AI in Teaching and Learning: Spring 2025 Events
    3/5/25
    Throughout the spring semester, CATT is hosting a series of events to help faculty and staff explore how AI can enhance teaching, discover innovative uses for generative AI tools, and learn more about UB’s ongoing efforts to develop policies, guidance, and best practices for responsible AI integration.
  • Generative AI Survey for UB Instructors
    1/29/25
    As the integration of artificial intelligence in education continues to evolve, we are seeking the input of instructors at UB to better understand how these tools are being utilized.

Latest Podcast Episode

  • Overcoming Burnout and Reigniting Your Passion for Teaching | Ep. 9
    1/31/25
    Burnout is a challenge many educators face, but how do you recognize it and navigate through it? In our latest episode of The Teaching Table podcast, we talk with Dr. Aisha O'Mally, a professor at the School of Management, about her experience with burnout. She shares how the demands of teaching and workload took a toll on her well-being and how she found ways to regain balance and reconnect with her passion for education. Tune in to hear her insights and reflections on maintaining well-being in academia.

Past Updates

  • The Supposed Looming Specter of Artificial General Intelligence
    10/18/23
    The optimism surrounding the promise of artificial intelligence has accompanied related research and development for most of the past century. However, skepticism has continuously served to temper delusions of grandeur that might look past the daunting challenges of developing machine or computer technology that can surpass human abilities in holistic and comprehensive intelligence (often referred to as artificial general intelligence).
  • Brightspace Student Chatter
    10/4/23
    Overall, the Brightspace roll-out is viewed as successful. It is new for all of us, faculty, staff and students. Hear what the students have to say about the rollout and their experiences as learners in the new learning management system.
  • Embracing the Future Now: Instructors and Artificial Intelligence
    9/20/23
    Alarm bells are sounding about a new danger lurking in the halls of academia. Misunderstood and operating in the shadows, it is assumed to be drawing students into its clutches with the promise of easier, less time-consuming schoolwork. It asks us what we need and then supplies the fix. What is this menace? Artificial intelligence.
  • Optimizing Brightspace: Tips to Enhance Your Course
    9/6/23
    The transition from Blackboard to Brightspace is finally complete and the fall semester has started. As you begin teaching your courses, our learning designers have some suggestions and tips to optimize Brightspace and create an engaging course that everyone will benefit from and enjoy
  • Brightspace Essentials: What You Need to Know for Summer 2023
    5/17/23
    As the spring semester comes to a close and the summer months quickly approach, we want to provide you with essential information that will help you with the transition to Brightspace, the university's new Learning Management System (LMS), and highlight some of the exciting features that instructors and students will find helpful.
  • Digital Accessibility: Quick Fixes to Make Your Content Accessible (Part 2)
    4/26/23
    Understand how to tackle five of the top accessibility issues to help you create accessible content.