Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Dr. Addy Tolliver is the Associate Director of SMU's Center for Teaching Excellence. Some of the initiatives created are: the CTE Passport, JiTTT Teaching and Technology Grants, CTE Affiliates, CTE Liaisons, Teaching Thursdays, Teaching and AI, and others. Additionally, she assists faculty with the integration of technology and various research-based practices to effectively showcase subject matter content and promote student engagement in face-to-face and online courses. Before serving SMU's Center for Teaching Excellence as Associate Director, Instructional Designer (ID), and Sr. ID, Addy worked at Texas Wesleyan University's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning as an Instructional Technologist and Adjunct Professor. Before that, she was a graduate assistant for the Baylor University Online Teaching and Learning Services, a graduate fellow at the Baylor Academy for Teaching and Learning, and the instructor for TED 3380 (Social Issues in Education), TED 1112 (Technology) lab and the graduate level EDC5370 (Technology Fundamentals). Addy has served as the president of the Baylor Graduate Student Association (2010-2012), the Brazilian Student Association (2009-2011), was a member of the Baylor Teaching and Learning with Technology Committee (2009-2012), a Baylor University liaison for the New Media Consortium Campus Leaders Advisory Board (C-LAB), a NMC Horizon.br Advisory Board Member/Research Assistant and more. Addy is a native of São Paulo, Brazil. All of her degrees are from Baylor University in Waco, TX, where she was also a volleyball letterwinner. She has earned a B.F.A in Graphic Design, an M.S.Ed. in Sport Pedagogy and Coaching and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction – Instructional Technology (Dissertation Title - Rethinking the Dissertation: A Case Study on the State of Acceptance of New Media Projects as Ed.D. Capstone Experiences).