Fall 2025 theme: Supporting instructors in an AI-infused world
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Community of Practice focuses on building your knowledge and capacity in teaching and learning with artificial intelligence.
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (TLCoP) extends the work of the 2025 Purdue AI Academy to build your knowledge and capacity in teaching and learning with artificial intelligence (AI).
In the following three sessions, TLCoP will feature work done this August, when the Innovation Hub, in partnership with the Center for Instructional Excellence, hosted approximately 80 Purdue instructors in a week-long academy that supported creative integration of AI tools into their teaching environments and practices.
These sessions are not workshops or lectures, but conversations that extend the work begun during the AI Academy. You will also be connected with the Innovation Hub’s active network of faculty innovators who have successfully designed and deployed course (re-) designs and AI innovations. All sessions are on Zoom, so please register.
Session 1: Beyond the Syllabus: Talking with your Students about AI
Thurs., Aug. 21 Recording & Notes
This discussion-based session was designed to help instructional teams navigate the evolving role of AI in the classroom. Participants shared ideas, asked questions, and explored how we can talk with students about AI in meaningful, practical ways. The energy and key insights from the Purdue AI Academy sparked ideas and conversation. Check out the recording, highlights and resources shared.
Session 2: Exploring AI in Course Design
Mon., Oct. 6 Recording & Notes
Curious about integrating AI into your teaching or helping students build AI literacy? This TLCoP session offered a collaborative space for faculty to explore ideas, share experiences, and discuss approaches to designing (or redesigning) activities and modules with AI in mind. Whether you’re using AI as a tool to support learning or teaching students how to engage with it critically and ethically, this session focused on practical strategies and collective insight.
Session 3: Reimagining Collaborative AI Professional Development
Mon., Nov. 17 Recording, Transcripts, Notes
The final session in our AI-focused series invited instructors to collaboratively explore what meaningful, relevant professional development could look like for them. Three Purdue Polytechnic instructors shared their experiences in faculty development using AI in teaching: April Cheung, Rustin Webster, and Farid Breidi.
Join our teaching & learning community
TLCoP meetings offer the unique opportunity to come together in an ongoing, flexible, and supportive environment to engage in conversation about a range of teaching and learning issues. In conversation with others from across a range of disciplines, at various stages in their academic careers, and with different kinds of experiences in the classroom, participants collectively explore pedagogical ideas and strategies that they can incorporate into their courses.
As a community of practice, TLCoP is open to any instructors who wish to learn more about teaching and learning and to those who wish to share their experiences with others. Graduate students, faculty, instructional support staff, or anyone who is passionate about teaching is welcome to attend any and all meetings. We’re thrilled to have you and to learn from one another!
TLCoP is an initiative of Purdue’s Innovative Learning Team, including the Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, and Purdue University Online. Staff members from each of these teams make up the planning committee and lend expertise in pedagogy, educational technologies, information and research support, as well as augmented and virtual reality in the classroom. These committee members are available to advise instructors on additional resources and relevant services related to TLCoP meetings.
For any questions, please reach out to TLCoP’s staff facilitators, Molly Kremer or Emma Calahan.
Meet the TLCoP Team
Emma Callahan, Instructional Developer, Center for Instructional Excellence
Aly Edmonson, Instructional Designer, Libraries and School of Information Studies
Lindsay Hamm, Faculty Facilitator and Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Sociology
Tori Hart, Educational Technology Consultant, Purdue University Online
Molly Kremer, Educational Technologist, Purdue University Online
Karen Neubauer, Assistant Director for Special Projects, Center for Instructional Excellence