🤖 AI: Creating Your Own DIY Pathway for Teaching and Learning
📅 Summer Webinar Recap
🧠 [This recap is co-authored by AI/ChatGPT.]
🎓 Presented by:
Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence (CRTLE)
📍 Recorded: June 11, 2025
💡 As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes higher education and the workforce, faculty face an urgent question:
👉 How do we keep up and help our students do the same?
🛠️ In this CRTLE Summer Programming webinar, “AI: Creating Your Own DIY Pathway for Teaching and Learning,” faculty and instructional experts at UTA shared:
- 🔧 Tools to build AI literacy
- 🧭 Strategies for personalized AI learning
- 👩🏫 Instructor-tested tips for integrating AI into teaching and learning
🎥 Watch the recording here or below:
Recap: AI: Creating your own DIY Pathway for Teaching and Learning Wednesday, June 11
Download the slide deck: Click here for slides
Getting Started
🔗 See the UTA AI Website: Click here
🔗 LinkedIn Learning at UTA: Click here
📘 Explore the OER Book: AI-Powered Education: Innovative Teaching Strategies to Elevate Student Learning
👉 Click here for the book!
🧠 Segment 1: LinkedIn Learning – Industry-Aligned AI Training
👨💻 Presented by Ron Roberson (OIT)
Ron introduced UTA’s access to LinkedIn Learning, highlighting:
- 🧩 5-tier AI upskilling framework (basic to specialization)
- 🎓 800+ AI-related courses and certification paths
- 🤖 Built-in AI coaching tools to recommend content and simulate performance
💡 Pro Tip: UTA students, faculty, and staff get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Use filters by level or certification to find the right starting point!
🔍 Get started: Click here
📘 Practical Guide to Upskilling: Click here
📊 Upskilling Framework: Download the Excel guide
📚 Segment 2: Canvas-Based AI Essentials Courses
👩🏫 Presented by Jess Kahlow (Center for Distance Ed)
Jess highlighted two UTA-created self-paced modules:
- 🧭 AI Essentials for Instructors
- 📘 AI Essentials for Students
These provide:
- ✅ Practical strategies for ethical AI use
- 📝 AI integration in course design, assessment, & policies
- 🛡️ UTA-specific privacy context & syllabus support
- 🏅 Badges and H5P activities for Canvas
📈 Faculty Impact: 100+ instructors enrolled. Most report plans to revise teaching practices.
🔗 Enroll (UTA only): Click here
📖 Student Guide (H5P): Click here
📝 Read more: Click here
🎓 Segment 3: Coursera Career Academy – Microcredentials for You and Your Students
👨🏫 Presented by Dr. Andrew Clark (CRTLE)
Dr. Clark spotlighted this UT System-supported platform offering:
- 🧠 AI certificates from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more
- 📦 Microcredentials easily embedded in Canvas
- 🧩 Flexible classroom use and professional development tracks
💡 Classroom Tip: Assign just one module or allow students to explore full certification tracks.
🎓 Explore Coursera (Free for UTA):
Click here
📘 Bonus Resource: AI-Powered Education (Free OER Book)
Looking for examples of AI in the classroom? This open-access book includes:
- 📑 Creating rubrics with AI (Jess Kahlow)
- 📰 AI personas in journalism (Andrew Clark)
- 📚 Discipline-specific strategies across UTA
📖 Read the book: Click here
🧭 Where to Start
😵 Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not alone. The key is to start small. Choose just one of the following:
✅ Take a short LinkedIn Learning course
✅ Enroll in UTA’s AI Essentials Instructor Module
✅ Try one Coursera microcredential
✅ Explore the Pedagogy NEXT blog
📌 Need help? Email us at crtle@uta.edu