Planning Team for 2025 AI Institute for Teaching and Learning
Proposal
The School for the Digital Future invites applications for a small cohort of faculty and staff to collaboratively plan, design and implement a 3-day AI Institute to be held in Summer 2025. The institute will equip faculty with the skills and knowledge to integrate Generative AI tools critically and strategically into their teaching practices.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Ethics and AI
- AI/digital literacies
- Human-centered AI mindset / AI pedagogy
- AI as a thought partner in teaching
- AI as a thought partner in learning
The planning team will design and facilitate this institute, ensuring it provides practical strategies, meaningful discussion and capacity for faculty to identify, evaluate and integrate AI for their upcoming courses in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Planning team details
Stipend for participation (planning team): $1,000 per faculty member
Time commitment: Approximately 5 hours per week including:
- Cohort meetings every other week (beginning the end of February)
- Individual work on planning and design
- 1 intensive planning day in the summer and ahead of the institute
- Facilitation of the 3-day AI Summer Institute (held in May)
Eligibility and application process
Faculty and staff from all disciplines/units are encouraged to apply.
Send any questions to Dr. Kelly Arispe, Launch Director for the School for the Digital Future, at kellyarispe@boisestate.edu
Submit a letter of interest (no more than 1 page) that includes:
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- Your experience with AI in teaching, learning or other contexts
- How your disciplinary lens or expertise would meaningfully contribute to this initiative
- Describe a topic on AI that excites you and a concrete discussion, activity or idea you could bring to the team
Submission details:
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- Letter of interest is due by Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 and will be reviewed by a committee.
- Notifications will be shared by Friday, Feb. 21.
- Please upload your letter using the form on this page.