The Teaching & Learning Commons has an exciting opportunity for academic faculty this spring semester! Enrollment is now open for Auburn University’s Teaching with AI online course and UNLV’s 11 AI Learning Communities — each with its own theme — to help you connect, learn, and collaborate on innovative AI-driven practices in a “book club” style format. Both opportunities are designed to support your professional development and foster a community of practice in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in higher education. To take the Auburn course, academic faculty must join a learning community.

Auburn “Teaching with AI” Course: Enhance your teaching strategies and explore new ways to engage students with AI tools.

• Module 1: What Do I Need to Know About AI?
• Module 2: What Do I Need to Rethink in Terms of the Exams, Papers, or Projects I Assign?
• Module 3: How are Students Using AI Tools and How Can I Partner With My Students?
• Module 4: What are the Ethical Considerations of AI in Our Higher Ed Context and Beyond?
• Module 5: How Do I (Re)Design Courses in the Wake of the AI Disruption?

UNLV AI Learning Communities: Choose from 11 themed groups that will meet at least three times this semester. You can join any group that interests you; priority will be given to participants from the same college/school. For more information about each learning community, please email tl.commons@unlv.edu.

• Reflections on Course Assessments in the AI Era: What’s Working, What Isn’t (Christine Bergman, College of Hospitality)
• Redesigning Activities & Assessments with AI: Boost Engagement, Deter Cheating, Enhance Learning (Necole Leland, School of Nursing)
• Ostrich Support Group (Kay Callahan, School of Public Health)
• Adapting Our Writing Intensive Courses: Teaching the Writing Process in this time of Generative AI (Maria Jerinic, Honors College)
• Enhancing Course Content with AI: Ethical Prompting, Critical Thinking, and Fact-Checking (Robert Cornell, Lee Business School)
• Harnessing AI for Evidence-Based Clinical Decisions and Realistic Scenario Simulations in Dentistry (Rassilee Sharma, School of Dental Medicine)
• Asking and Answering a Clinical Question: Curating Sources (Johnson Ukken, School of Medicine)
• Can AI Enhance Student Learning? (Todd Jones, College of Liberal Arts)
• Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone Toward Meaningful AI Integration (Kenneth J. Varner, College of Education)
• Using Generative AI to Leverage Workflow Functionality to Enhance Course Content Creation to Maximize Student Engagement (Steven Pace, College of Urban Affairs)
• Teaching with AI in the Film School Setting: From the Classroom to the Set to the Screen (Adam Paul, College of Fine Arts)

Spots are limited. Sign up here by January 31. 

We hope you’ll take advantage of these unique opportunities to learn, collaborate, and lead in this exciting new era of AI. If you have any questions, please email us at tl.commons@unlv.edu.