Community of Practice
Fall 2025
Enhancing Courses with Generative AI
Join your colleagues to discuss how we can learn and work together to promote student success and belonging at PNW!
APPLY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Apply by Aug 29!
Participation is limited, and the application above is a required step to be considered. Please respond thoughtfully and thoroughly — your responses will be used to determine eligibility and ensure a good match between participant goals and the CoP’s focus.
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a like-minded group of individuals coming together for a unified cause to learn from each other how and what to use as best practices to promote the best outcomes for the cause. This group’s cause will be learning how to enhance a course with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).
- Build a community of peers
- Foster reflective teaching
- Enhance effective pedagogical techniques
- Increase knowledge of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Provide opportunities for professional development and personal growth
- Improve the quality of higher education
- Receive digital badges and a completion certificate
Enhancing Courses with Generative AI
The purpose of the current CoP is to learn and reflect on effective teaching practices with GenAI and to then intentionally integrate GenAI into a course. By the end of the CoP, participants will have successfully integrated GenAI in a course based on effective teaching practices and student learning outcomes.
- Encourage faculty and student success via effective teaching practices
- Foster a community of like-minded individuals
- Reflect on teaching and implement new GenAI teaching strategies
- You will complete the Auburn University’s Teaching with AI course prior to the first meeting. The course takes approx. 5-7 hours to complete.
- Registration for the course will be paid for and managed by the CFE.
- It is strongly encourage for you to attend or view the recordings of the Fall 2025 “Playing with AI” sessions.
- You will bring your own input/information/challenges/things you’d like to have changed in your course as a catalyst for your efforts in the CoP.
- We will meet every two weeks starting Sept 22nd and at each meeting we will bring in the Auburn course’s guidance along with our own experiences to shape the CoP. The expectation is that you will attend all four (4) meetings.
- September 22nd (12:30-1:45pm) – virtual
- October 6th (12:30-1:45pm) – virtual
- October 20th (12:30-1:45pm) – virtual
- November 3rd (12:30-1:45pm) – virtual
Any Faculty or Instructor teaching a course in the Fall 2025 semester is eligible to apply to participate.
Participation is limited, therefore applying to participate is a required step to be considered. Your responses provided in the application will be used to determine eligibility and ensure a good match between participant goals and the CoP’s focus.
Teaching With AI (Fall 2024)
The purpose of the this CoP was to learn and reflect on effective teaching practices with GenAI.
First-Year and First-Generation Students (Fall 2023)
The purpose of this CoP was to learn and reflect on best practices in teaching first-year and first-generation students.