Facilitating Department: Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Curious to know how your colleagues are using AI in their classrooms or research practices? Join an AI Exchange, a collaborative space to explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in teaching, learning, and research. A selection of resources will be shared in advance as optional inspiration—perfect if you’d like to see examples or spark ideas before the session. Each session will focus on a different aspect of using AI in higher ed—from incorporating AI in the classroom to using AI to design assessments. Come prepared to share your own experiences, tools, and strategies for using AI—or strategies you’re interested in exploring—whether you’ve been experimenting for a while or are just getting started. Together, you and other participants will explore possibilities and walk away with actionable strategies you can apply right away.

By participating in these sessions, you will be able to:

• Share your own approaches, experiences, and strategies related to using AI in your academic practice.
• Identify practical AI strategies or tools that you can adapt for your own work.
• Connect with colleagues who share your interest in leveraging AI to enhance teaching, learning, research, and productivity.

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Facilitator: Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence

In this session, you will apply principles of backward design to courses with fixed learning outcomes. Many courses with pre-determined goals can become stagnant or overly routine, especially if they are frequently taught semester after semester. Using the tools from the workshop, you’ll explore ways to refresh these courses and incorporate your own teaching style and perspective into their design. 

By participating in this session, you will be able to:

• Understand the structure of backward-designed courses compared to other models. 
• Expand and personalize how learning outcomes are assessed.
• Create a lesson plan using backward design principles. 

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Facilitator: Holly Barber, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Join us for an engaging workshop on using Canvas Studio software within the Canvas LMS! Participants will learn to identify key features of Canvas Studio and discover how to record and edit videos. Additionally, the workshop will cover creating in-video quizzes and discussions, applying auto-closed captions, and utilizing student analytics. By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped with practical skills to create interactive and accessible video content for their courses. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching with Canvas Studio!

In this session, you will:

• Identify Canvas Studio features.  
• Discover how to record and edit videos.  
• Create in-video quizzes & discussions.  
• Apply auto-closed captions.  
• Utilize student analytics. 

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Facilitator: Tawnya Means, Ph.D., Inspire Higher Ed

This capstone session elevates AI integration beyond tool proficiency to develop student critical thinking capabilities. You’ll explore seven critical thinking strands and design learning activities that cultivate these meta-competencies. We’ll demonstrate instructional minimalism—using AI to help students “start at 80% done”—and establish peer support networks for your continued journey.

By the end of this session, you will be able to: 

• Design learning experiences that develop student judgment when AI outputs conflict 
• Create assignments that foster productive skepticism about AI claims 
• Apply the instructional minimalism principle (“Start at 80% Done”) 
• Develop reflection activities that help students examine their AI relationship 
• Establish a personal action plan with accountability structures 
• Identify colleagues for ongoing peer support

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Facilitator: Tawnya Means, Ph.D., Inspire Higher Ed

Building on Session 1’s foundational awareness, this session focuses on practical integration. You’ll explore the Bloom-AI Framework for strategically distributing cognitive tasks between AI and human instruction. Through collaborative design, you’ll transform an assignment into an AI-resilient format and learn to reframe academic integrity from “detection” to “transparency.”

By the end of this session, you will be able to: 

• Apply the Bloom-AI Framework to distribute cognitive tasks between AI and human instruction 
• Transform a traditional assignment into an AI-resilient format 
• Design transparent collaboration guidelines using the AI Assessment Scale 
• Create rubric criteria that assess both AI collaboration and human contributions 
• Reframe academic integrity language in your syllabus

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Facilitator: Anna Rood, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

In this interactive session, you will explore innovative alternatives to the traditional online discussion board. As instructors, you understand the importance of fostering student engagement and peer interaction. However, discussion boards often fall short in achieving these goals. This session will uncover the reasons why discussion boards are not always effective and will introduce you to a variety of alternative tools and strategies that can enhance student engagement and collaboration.

By participating in this session, you will be able to:

• Examine the limitations of traditional online discussion boards.
• Discover and evaluate alternative tools that promote student interaction. 
• Create a plan for adapting a current discussion board assignment.

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Facilitator: Tawnya Means, Ph.D., Inspire Higher Ed

This foundational session reframes AI from perceived threat to educational partner. You’ll examine your current beliefs about AI in education, engage with real-world examples across disciplines, and practice prompt engineering techniques. We’ll introduce the Three-Tier Framework and explore how your AI awareness directly enables student AI literacy.  
 

By participating in this session/event, you will be able to:

• Distinguish between AI awareness, integration, and innovation levels using the Three-Tier Framework 
• Apply basic prompt engineering techniques with AI tools to generate teaching-relevant outputs 
• Identify at least three AI applications specific to your discipline 
• Develop initial strategies for discussing AI collaboration transparently with students 
• Connect with colleagues who share your interests in AI integration

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Facilitator: Dr. Subha Nagarajan, Teaching Professor, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, Firelands Campus & CFE Faculty Associate

Discover how intentional course design—grounded in outcome-driven planning and backward design—can transform student learning. In this session, you’ll be introduced to the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework and learn how to align learning outcomes, assessments, and instructional strategies to create coherent and impactful learning experiences. Whether you’re developing a new course or refining an existing one, you’ll leave with practical tools to ensure every element of your course contributes meaningfully to student learning.

By participating in this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the process of backward course design.
•  Evaluate course objectives, activities, and assessments for alignment.
• Create a plan to design or redesign a course on backward design principles.

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Facilitator: Holly Barber, Anna Rood, & Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designers, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Join our hands-on working session to use UDOIT (Universal Design Online Inspection Tool) to scan your Canvas course for accessibility issues and quickly implement fixes that support all learners. We’ll walk through interpreting UDOIT errors, and practice remediation techniques for heading structures, alternative text, descriptive link text, table headers, and more. Plan on using a course you’re actively teaching (or preparing) so you leave with real progress and plan to keep your content accessible going forward. 
 

By participating in this session, you will be able to:

• Run a course scan to find potential accessibility issues.
• Evaluate a UDOIT report, distinguishing errors, suggestions, and non‑issues, and prioritizing items that most impact learner access.
• Apply accessibility remediations to course content.
• Discuss strategies for implementing a check‑and‑fix process to increase course accessibility score and meet compliance requirements. 

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