The Institute at Macmillan Learning
Professional Development for Educators
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Teaching with Artificial Intelligence
Ready to begin incorporating artificial intelligence into your course? Searching for ways to navigate AI’s challenges in education? Teaching With Generative AI: A Course for Educators is for you. This course will offer practical strategies to meet this dynamic moment that AI has created in education.
Beyond the course content, an experienced facilitator will guide your learning journey. Collaboration is a cornerstone of this experience - you will be part of a cohort of educators, all exploring AI's potential in education to address real-life teaching challenges. Together, you will delve into practical applications, share insights, and discuss challenges.
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Why this course?
Many professional development opportunities only scratch the surface with high-level, theoretical overviews. In contrast, the Teaching With Generative AI course will help you apply what you learn by giving you dedicated time to build policies and assignments you can actually use — and you’ll connect with experienced faciltators and peer educators who can help.
Course topics include:
- Crafting an AI Policy for Your Course
- Designing Assignments that Integrate Generative AI
- Navigating Conversations about Students’ Use of AI
Meet your course facilitators.
Lisa Blue
Instructional Specialist, STEM-H Teaching & Learning at Eastern Kentucky University
Dr. Lisa Blue is an Instructional Specialist focused on STEM-H Teaching & Learning in the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at Eastern Kentucky University. A St. Louis native, Dr. Blue holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. In 2012, Dr. Blue joined the University of Kentucky full-time where she taught large General Chemistry lecture courses while supervising the work of graduate students staffing the department’s General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Learning Centers. In 2021, Dr. Blue joined EKU as the Associate Director of the Center for STEM Excellence before transitioning to her current role in 2023.
Jennifer Duncan
Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University Perimeter College
Jennifer Duncan is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University Perimeter College, where she teaches online classes in composition, literature, and humanities. Prior to that, she was part of the English faculty at Chattanooga State Community College in Tennessee. Jennifer is particularly interested in creating authentic and valuable writing experiences that engage online students. She holds degrees from Emmanuel College and The University of South Carolina in addition to studying at The University of Tennessee. Jennifer is a faculty consultant for Macmillan Learning.
Meet the subject matter experts who developed the course content.
Laura Dumin
Professor & AI Coordinator
University of Central Oklahoma
Antonio Byrd
Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Studies
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Daniel Frank
Lecturer and co-author
UCSB Writing Program AI Policy UC Santa Barbara Writing Program
About The Institute at Macmillan Learning
From webinars to educational technology summits, Macmillan Learning has provided educators with meaningful professional development experiences across disciplines. The newly established Macmillan Learning Institute gives educators effective, practical, and impactful professional development courses, providing the information and support that instructors need to put theory into practise.
For over 175 years, Macmillan Learning has stood by you, providing pioneering educational materials. Now, we’re here to help you be the educator you aspire to be.
Put Theory Into Practise.
Demonstrate What You Learn.
Practical Knowledge
Taught with research-based pedagogies, tailored to your professional practise, and facilitated by thought leaders and practitioners who have done the work themselves
Meaningful Community
An accountability community and course facilitator that inspires and supports you in advancing your professional practise, career goals, in your specific employment setting.
Visibility & Influence
Opportunities to present, publish, collaborate, or become an Institute subject-matter expert or facilitator, and earn badges upon completion of the course..
