Artificial Intelligence

Teaching with AI: Enhancing Learning with Custom Agents/Chatbots

Nov 5, 2026, 2:00 PM

Custom AI chatbots can provide engaging opportunities for students to interact with content, simulate practice scenarios, practice skills, and receive feedback. This hands-on session will introduce how to build and prompt tailored chatbots designed specifically for your courses. We will share some examples and explore the benefits and shortcomings of chatbots as an instructional tool. No advanced technical skills are needed.

Teaching with AI: Assignment Design with Modern AI in Mind

Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

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Integrating generative AI into student learning activities requires some creativity and experience with examples. This workshop will offer strategies and examples for designing assignments that allow students to build skills with AI. Moving beyond just comparing human and AI inputs, this session will consider the unique additions AI can add to activities and assignments while still prioritizing learning.

Getting Started with AI: Communicating with Students about AI

Nov 2, 2026, 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Perhaps the single most important step instructors can take to set students up for success for using AI ethically and responsibly for teaching and learning is through thoughtful and collaborative communication. Communicating expectations about AI use (or lack thereof) requires extensive reflection with your course materials in mind. This session will provide useful tools for fostering transparency and trust around AI use in teaching and learning while also inviting students into conversation with you and each other.

Getting Started with AI: How AI Works and Why that Matters for Teaching and Learning

Oct 1, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the basic functions of large language models (LLMs) is essential for successfully navigating teaching and learning in the AI age. Considering how AI works can help inform your own teaching practices, assignment design, and how you coach students to use (or not use) the tools ethically and responsibly. Join us for this session to learn how AI tools are trained, how they use information, and what we as users should have in mind when we interact with their outputs.

Teaching with AI: Integrating or Mitigating AI in Assignments

Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Whether you want to incorporate AI tools into your daily instruction or design activities that minimize student reliance on them, finding the right approach requires intentional planning. This session examines strategies for either meaningfully embedding generative AI into learning activities or, conversely, crafting learning activities that emphasize more human-centered processes and skills. You will leave with actionable frameworks to evaluate your current activities and adapt them to align with your pedagogical goals.

Getting Started with AI: Basic Vocabulary and Getting Connected

Sep 3, 2026, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence

The fast pace of AI development can be overwhelming and confusing at times and making sense of that evolving technology requires understanding unfamiliar terminology and tools currently shaping higher education. This session provides a practical introduction to the essential vocabulary around AI for instructors to support campus-wide conversations. The session will serve as an introduction to the basics as well as to some of the common AI platforms and how to get connected to those tools provided by UK.

2026 Pedagogicon Conference

May 15, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Foundational Skills, Active Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Assessment, Student Engagement

Pedagogicon is an annual peer-reviewed conference that brings together faculty, scholars and academic leaders designed to ignite innovation, deepen impact, and share knowledge among colleagues across Kentucky. The 2026 event will focus on the 10 Essential Skills -- how to embed them in programs, how to teach them, and how to assess student learning. With a combination of plenary sessions, faculty-led breakout sessions, and poster sessions, attendees will leave with strategies, resources, and an expanded network of colleagues working on these “essential” components to learning.

AI Takeaways: Three Years Later

Jan 9, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence

This session will devote 20-30 minutes to covering high-level takeaways from CELT's three years of experience in working on generative AI in education across UK and beyond, with the remainder of the time for discussion and questions on issues that are pertinent for the spring 2026 semester.

Approaches to Generative AI in Higher Education (AI/ML Hub Symposium)

Nov 17, 2025, 1:45 – 2:35 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Join CELT associate director Dr. Jill Abney and members of the 2024-2025 Teaching Innovation Institute for a talk on the role and uses of generative AI in teaching and learning at the 2025 UK AI/ML Hub Symposium.

Teaching Critical Thinking with GAI Deep Research

Dec 2, 2025, 12:30 – 1:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence

This 30 minute session will explore the "deep research" function of Perplexity (and common in many other AI tools) as an opportunity to teach critical thinking with students.

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