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Fall 2025

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All workshops are 1 hour in length and held on Zoom unless indicated otherwise. Recordings of workshops will be posted for NKU educators in the Canvas Professional Development Shell

 

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS

Augmenting the Academic: Leveraging AI for Dynamic Course Design and Student Engagement

Speaker: Kevin Eagles

Date: September 11

Time: 12pm - 1pm

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This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of how faculty can strategically integrate ChatGPT into their daily academic workflows to enhance course design, lecture planning, student engagement, and assessment. Kevin Eagles, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of History and Director of Public History at NKU, will share how he uses generative AI to build syllabi, refine lectures, develop course simulations, and create custom GPTs designed for student-centered learning and independent use.

Drawing on examples from his own work in digital and public history, Professor Eagles will also discuss how AI tools can be positioned as an integral tool in supporting intellectual labor, expanding critical thinking opportunities, and personalizing learning environments. The session aims to demystify AI integration, demonstrating its potential to empower educators rather than replace them.

Whether you’re new to generative AI or looking to deepen your implementation, this workshop will offer both philosophical framing and practical applications for integrating AI meaningfully into your pedagogical practice.

Participants will:

  • Learn how to integrate ChatGPT and other AI tools into course design, from syllabus development to lecture planning.
  • Discover how to create customized GPTs as student-facing resources for assignments and simulations.
  • Reflect on the ethical and pedagogical dimensions of AI use in higher education.

Teaching for Tomorrow: Applying the Next Generation Teaching Model

Speaker: Denice Robertson

Date: September 23 

Time: 12:15pm 

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What does it mean to design a course for the next generation of learners? This interactive workshop introduces the Next Generation Teaching Model, developed at Northern Kentucky University to help faculty integrate inclusive, engaged, and AI-informed teaching practices in both online and face-to-face courses.

Participants will:

  • Explore the components of the model and how they support student success
  • Access ready-to-use resources and AI prompts aligned with each part of the model
  • Engage in a hands-on activity to apply the model to a course they currently teach or are planning
  • Leave with practical strategies and tools to enhance course design, active learning, and assessment

Whether you’re looking to redesign a course, make sense of AI’s role in teaching, or simply try something new, this workshop offers a flexible, grounded approach for teaching in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

FUTURE WORKSHOPS

Review the upcoming schedule of workshops at a glance and register.
Date Time Speaker Title Registratrion Link
September 11, 2025 12 noon Kevin Eagles Augmenting the Academic: Leveraging AI for Dynamic Course Design and Student Engagement Register on Zoom
September 23, 2025 12:15 pm Denice Robertson

Teaching for Tomorrow: Applying the Next Generation Teaching Model

Register on Zoom
October 9, 2025 12 noon Kayla Weiglein Microlearning for the Modern Learner Register on Zoom
October 22, 2025 12 noon      
November 6, 2025 12 noon Mary Schilling Building Interactive Online Worksheets with Canvas New Quizzes  Register on Zoom
November 18, 2025 12 noon Vanessa Steele Cognitive Load vs. Cognitive Offloading Register on Zoom
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