Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

A practice-forward session presents our AI strategy through three Ecosystem-based work-plan pillars: Faculty Fellows & Curriculum Work, eLearning Integration and Execution, and Community & Partnerships. We’ll show how an AI Institute establishes governance and risk-tiered use cases, how Faculty Fellows run rapid pilots to redesign assignments and assessments, and how eLearning scales the work through templates, LMS integration, and an AI Fluency microcredential. Regional partners validate competencies and scenarios to ensure workforce alignment. Attendees leave with a replicable playbook to move from ideas to sustainable, ethical adoption. #AIFluency #FacultyDevelopment #InstitutionalStrategy

Forget the edtech hype cycle. This session reveals the actual toolkit behind AI-resilient courses: Canvas features you're not using, third-party tools that solve real problems, and custom GPTs that guide rather than replace thinking. You'll see how strategic tool selection, not tool proliferation, creates courses where AI becomes irrelevant to cheating but useful for learning. From social annotation platforms that eliminate traditional quizzes to video tools that ensure technical competency, these aren't hypothetical recommendations. They're the tested stack that transformed my teaching, improved student outcomes, and made courses I actually enjoy facilitating.

Faculty across disciplines are moving beyond traditional written assignments and adopting audio and media projects that amplify student voice and perspective. Podcasts and other audio-based assignments have become increasingly popular, but media projects can unintentionally prioritize production quality more than student thinking. This session explores how audio assignment formats, including spoken-word karaoke, radio call-ins, and short op-eds, keep student ideas at the center. Using free features available in Adobe Podcast and Microsoft Clipchamp as demonstration tools, participants will explore how AI-supported audio cleanup, captioning, and avatar-based narration can streamline accessible media production while lowering technical barriers for students. Participants will leave with adaptable assignment ideas and a ready-to-use choice board that lowers technical barriers while increasing engagement and expression.

In the rush to meet the AI moment, it’s easy to default to one-off faculty trainings focused on how-to, but we took a different approach. The real challenge isn't knowledge; it's creating spaces where educators can safely admit uncertainty and explore messy questions together. This session shares a replicable Generative AI Communities of Practice model from the University System of Maryland's Fellows program. We demonstrate how to design collaborative structures that invite the difficult conversations faculty need and develop faculty leadership, empowering fellows to lead workshops for colleagues. Participants leave with a starter kit for launching their own inquiry communities.(#Communities-of-Practice, #Faculty-Leadership, #Collaborative-Learning)