About

I’m Zeenar Salim, Assistant Director for Instructional Development at the University of Georgia’s Center for Teaching and Learning, where I support faculty across 14 schools and colleges. My work sits at the intersection of faculty development, instructional design, and learning analytics — translating ideas from the scholarship of teaching and learning into programs, pipelines, and practical tools faculty can actually use.

I hold a PhD in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation from Syracuse University, and I’m a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of Advance HE (UK). I lead the GAIT Fellowship (supporting faculty with thoughtful generative AI integration) and The Reflective Collective (a community of practice grounded in Appreciative Inquiry), and I collaborate on research spanning neuromyths in education, generative AI in higher ed, and the design of faculty development itself.

What I care about

Faculty development as design. Programs aren’t handouts. They’re structured invitations into a different kind of professional practice.
Data that answers the right question. I build pipelines in Python, R, Power BI, and Tableau — but only after we’ve agreed on what we’re trying to learn.
Generative AI with eyes open. Neither hype nor panic. Careful experimentation, transparency, and a bias toward protecting the humans in the room.
Reflective practice. The best teachers I know are the ones who keep asking themselves better questions.

Elsewhere

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