Senior Lecturer
Contact
100 Bay State Road, Room 310
(617) 358-1538
pfassihi@bu.edu
Education
2010 Ed.D. Boston University (Language Education)
2004 M.Ed Boston University (TESOL)
2003 B.A. Northeastern University (Dual Major: English Literature and Linguistics)
Bio
Pary Fassihi started her journey with the Writing Program in 2015, and is currently a senior lecturer. Her expertise specifically lies in teaching academic writing for the past 27 years to non-native English speakers through innovative methods in national and international settings to native and non-native speakers of English. Pary 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.
Throughout her university career, Pary has played several roles in faculty development, including her past positions as the Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) and as a Faculty Consultant at the CTL and 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.
Pary has a very diverse interest in educational technology and as it relates to pedagogy. She was recognized as an Adobe Catalyst Leader at BU, and ran the Adobe Catalyst Program for faculty. Among her projects and research interests are the flipped model of learning, virtual reality, generative artificial intelligence, 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.
Due to her specific interest in student engagement and active learning in the classroom, Pary was one of the recipients of a Learning Technologies Development grant through BU. She led a program-wide effort to create a digital library of Flipped Learning Modules (series of online videos and activities on specific content area). The content of this program-wide project could be found here: https://www.bu.edu/teaching-writing/resources-for-teaching-writing/flipped-learning-modules/
Pary’s more recent research is in the area of generative AI where she is exploring with a variety of generative AI activities in the classroom, and will be teaching an AI-intensive course in Spring 2024. Pary also currently serves on the Provost’s AI Task Force at BU.