Biography
Pary Fassihi is a passionate educator, technology explorer and faculty consultant. Her expertise lies in the teaching of language, academic writing and digital media for the past 28 years in national and international settings. Fassihi places high value in fostering student interaction, both within and outside the classroom, and believes in nurturing student-student as well as student-teacher relationships through active learning strategies in the classroom setting. Throughout her career, Fassihi has played several roles in faculty development, including her past positions as the Assistant Director of Boston University’s Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) and Faculty Consultant at the CTL as well as Faculty Consultant for Digital Learning Modules at the College of Arts and Sciences. In these roles, she actively contributed to the professional growth of her colleagues throughout the university and beyond, and initiated a number of projects, programs and collaborations. Fassihi has also been recognized as an Adobe Catalyst Leader at BU, and has co-facilitated the Adobe Catalyst Program for faculty. Among her projects and research interests are the flipped model of learning, virtual reality, student response systems, video production, podcast creation, emerging media, etc. She strongly believes that technology has the potential to greatly enhance the educational experience if implemented in an efficient and purposeful way. Fassihi’s recent research area is on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) where she is exploring a variety of the GenAI tools in education, and creating resources for students and faculty. She recently taught an AI-intensive writing course with a group of faculty at Boston University and is a member of Boston University’s Provost’s AI Task Force.
