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Empowering Faculty with AI-Enabled Planning

 Empowering Faculty with AI-Enabled Planning: Ethical, Purposeful, and Pedagogically Sound Teaching Practices

 

This professional development series equips UTRGV faculty with the skills to both use artificial intelligence for assignment development, as well as to integrate it into their teaching through evidence-based digital pedagogies. Participants will learn to design scaffolded formative assignments, create authentic assessments that foster purposeful learning, and critically evaluate their own practices through an ethical lens, which focuses on AI as a critical and creative partner, rather than a shortcut tool that diminishes opportunities for development of digital critical literacies. Each session builds on current research and practical applications to support innovative, reflective, and student-centered instruction in the age of AI.

Earn a certificate documenting your engagement in this professional development series!  Certificate will be provided upon your

  • Attendance to all sessions
  • Participation in and completion of a reflection survey after each session
  • Design and/or revision of an assignment informed by the sessions and submission for feedback from Student Partners in our SaLT HSI program.
All feedback requests can be submitted throughout the semester informed by each workshop; all feedback requests must be submitted to SaLT HSI no later than Friday, April 17th by 5:00p.m.
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Spring 2026

Faculty will engage with an evidence-based digital pedagogies framework to design formative assignments. The process will include the use of artificial intelligence to plan and develop assignments, as well as to develop scaffolded learning through AI-enabled learning and purposefully reimagined course learning goals. This session emphasizes systematic instructional planning and builds on strategies from already existing planning frameworks for AI-assisted planning, which integrate development of digital literacies that empower not disenfranchise the instructor. Faculty will leave this hands-on session with ideas and templates for structured digital pedagogies facilitated by artificial intelligence for planning and for learning.

Facilitator: 
Leticia De Leon
Professor, Teaching & Learning
CTE Faculty Fellow for Innovative Assignment Design in the Context of AI/LLMs

February 13, 2026, 12:30 – 2:00 pm

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This session guides faculty in designing meaningful and authentic assessments through the continued use of an AI-enabled digital pedagogy framework. Artificial intelligence will be used to create assessments, as well as to include the AI-assisted assessment and evaluation of student learning. Within these guidelines for design, faculty will also determine ways that specific learning objectives can leverage AI literacy, critical reflection, and student voice.  Participants will learn how to shift traditional assessment practices to foster trust and engagement through innovative digital pedagogy that integrates AI by leveraging its opportunities for adaptive learning, human-AI collaborations, and data informed decision-making. Faculty will leave this hands-on session with guides for creating assessments with artificial intelligence, as well as integrating AI into assessments.

Facilitator: 
Leticia De Leon
Professor, Teaching & Learning
CTE Faculty Fellow for Innovative Assignment Design in the Context of AI/LLMs

March 27, 2026, 12:30-2:00 pm 

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Faculty will learn to critically evaluate their own instructional practices, assignments, and assessments using AI through an ethical lens grounded in updated digital pedagogy theory. This session highlights critical self-improvement through an ethical lens. This includes embedding personal values into decision making and focusing on “the human in control”, with actionable steps for ensuring human judgement, transparency, and student agency. Artificial intelligence as an assistant and facilitator enables faculty to view perspective of AI-enabled digital pedagogies and what constitutes sound planning practices. Faculty will leave this hands-on session with strategies for using AI as a reflective and evaluative tool to enhance planning, feedback, and instructional efficiency.

Facilitator: 
Leticia De Leon
Professor, Teaching & Learning
CTE Faculty Fellow for Innovative Assignment Design in the Context of AI/LLMs

April 17, 2026, 12:30 – 2:00 pm. 

Register here