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Register for the 2025 Teaching Excellence Symposium

The event will be held on Friday, October 10 from 8:00 to 4:15 in the Gatton Student Center. All in the community are invited and registration is free. The day will feature a keynote and around 60 presentations representing 14 colleges and 45 departments or other units.

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CELT Mission

CELT advances educational excellence at the University of Kentucky through (1) collaboration with faculty, staff, and students; (2) partnerships with academic and administrative units; and (3) leadership on the challenges, opportunities, and issues impacting teaching and learning in higher education. Regardless of the form and setting in which teaching and learning take place, CELT is an expert and committed presence to foster community, collaboration, and innovation for instructor and student success at UK (and beyond). For more on our work, see our annual reports.

UK International Center, CELT launch Collaborative Online International Learning Community

The COIL Learning Community will support faculty in developing virtual exchange partnerships with colleagues at universities around the world. Through the program, instructors will co-create modules that bring together students from different countries to engage in transnational learning experiences. In a COIL module, UK students typically will collaborate on a project with students from an institution outside the U.S., sharing tasks, practicing cross-cultural communication and teamwork.

CELT AI Use Scale & Associate Director Jill Abney on Student Perceptions and Uses of AI in Inside Higher Ed

Today's Inside Higher Ed article unpacking some results from their student survey on GAI in education features insights from CELT's Dr. Jill Abney and the CELT GAI Use Scale, which is designed to facilitate conversation and clarity across a wide range of instructional settings.

UK ADVANCE Releases Updated Instructional Guidelines for GAI

UK ADVANCE has released updated guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in instructional, research, and clinical care contexts. The instructional guidelines include up-to-date research on GAI and expanded sections on AI literacy, affordances/constraints of GAI, and instructor/student use of GAI.