There are many new AI resources and professional development opportunities available to the California Community College systems. The listings below highlight current offerings, previously recorded information sessions and webinars, and other AI resources that are available to the field.
Upcoming and Past Webinars
Generative AI Meets Universal Design for Learning
Thursday, March 06, 2025; 1:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Gloria Washington
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming how educators design courses and support student learning, but how can it be leveraged to make learning more inclusive and accessible? The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework provides a roadmap for creating flexible learning experiences that meet the needs of all students. GenAI can enhance this process by offering new ways to engage learners, represent content, and support student expression.
This interactive session will explore how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can be used to personalize instruction, generate multimodal learning materials, and help students demonstrate their knowledge in ways that align with their strengths. Participants will experiment with AI-powered activities, discuss ethical considerations, and leave with practical strategies for integrating Generative AI within the UDL framework.
The Content Authenticity Initiative - Transparency in the Age of AI
Monday, March 10, 2025; 10:00 AM
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Santiago Lyon
Confused about the origins of images in the age of generative AI? Join award-winning war photographer and former media executive Santiago Lyon for an insightful overview of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)—an Adobe-led coalition of over 4,000 members dedicated to accelerating implementation of a transparent, open-source industry technical standard for digital content provenance.
As misinformation and disinformation challenge journalism, photography, and public trust, the CAI is accelerating the development of tools to verify the origins and authenticity of digital files. The initiative brings together leading media and technology companies, including AFP, AP, Reuters, BBC, DPA, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Getty Images, Shutterstock, Microsoft, Nikon, Qualcomm, and many more.
Discover how CAI is shaping the future of digital content verification—empowering news consumers to trace the origins of images, track edits, and ensure credibility from creation to publication.
Leveraging AI to Create UDL-Driven and Accessible Course Content
Thursday, March 20, 2025; 11:00 AM
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Elli Constantin
In the online learning environment, ensuring accessibility is an ongoing challenge—whether you’re creating content in platforms like Canvas or using open educational resources. While accessibility is essential, integrating the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) takes a proactive approach to enhance the learning experience for all students. Attend this session to learn how AI-powered tools, such as a bot, can support both accessibility and the incorporation of UDL principles in your course content. You’ll also explore other ways AI can be utilized to improve the online learning experience, making it more inclusive and engaging for diverse learners.
Easy AI for Educators: Simple Ways to Test How AI Can Help
Monday, March 24, 2025; 1:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Anna Mills
Educators have plenty to do without the added task of figuring out AI. But we know AI is all around our students; we need to understand what it can do and how they might use it. Where do we start if we don’t have much spare bandwidth? How do we avoid getting overwhelmed by hype and options? In this workshop, we’ll look at two straightforward ways to try AI assistance.
We’ll start with Khanmigo Teacher Tools, a free app in Canvas that guides you through common tasks like lesson planning and rubric creation. Khanmigo produces a draft, and we can ask for revisions. We’ll practice getting more out of AI by giving it specific directions and pushing it to improve. Then we’ll try uploading our existing materials to a chatbot like ChatGPT to get more tailored assistance with the same tasks. Participants will get hands-on practice with easy, guided approaches to AI that support our goals and teaching philosophy.
AI Breakout Room Challenges
Wednesday April, 02, 2025 1:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Dr. Chris Stillwell
In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage in a series of increasingly challenging collaborative AI tasks, structured as breakout room challenges. Each task will explore the use of AI tools to enhance teaching practices and student learning. Topics will include effective prompt writing, designing assignments that reduce the likelihood of AI misuse, and facilitating comprehension of complex texts. By working through these challenges in teams, participants will deepen their understanding of AI’s role in education and develop concrete strategies to apply in their courses.
Authentic Presence & Digital Doubles: Navigating Synthetic Media in Equitable Online Teaching
Thursday, April 10, 2025; 10:00 AM
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Are you curious about using AI-generated videos in your online teaching? Video content helps humanize the online learning experience and supports diverse learning needs through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). However, creating and maintaining quality videos requires significant time investment.
Enter synthetic media - AI generated videos and voice narrations produced from a simple typed script. These videos can feature either generic AI avatars or create a "digital double" of the instructor. While synthetic media offers exciting possibilities for saving faculty time, it raises important questions:
- How can we leverage synthetic media while still maintaining meaningful connections with our diverse student population?
- What is lost with synthetic media and gained with videos portraying an instructor's authentic presence?
- What are the practical and ethical considerations for using AI-generated content?
Join us to hear insights from participants in a CVC@ONE community of practice who have been exploring these questions. You'll also see a demonstration of how to create your own digital double video using just a script. Come discover whether this emerging technology could enhance your teaching toolkit!
Connections That Count: How CoPs Are Advancing AI Conversations
Monday, April 14, 2025; 11:00 AM
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, CVC@ONE; Christy Davis Roza, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Chabot College; Don Button, Design Professor & Co-Chair, AI Task Force, Sacramento City College; Jim Julius, Faculty Director, Online Education, MiraCosta College
Faculty, staff, and administrators, join us for an illuminating webinar as three California community college practitioners share their journeys in developing Communities of Practice (CoPs) focused on responding to GenAI. Discover why CoPs are powerful vehicles for tackling complex challenges like GenAI in teaching and learning. Our panelists will provide candid insights into their CoP design processes, implementation strategies, as well as struggles and successes.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from your peers and gain valuable insights for your own institution's AI journey.
Should Educators Be Using AI? Addressing Ethics as We Explore AI Assistance
Tuesday, April 22, 2025; 11:00 AM
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Anna Mills
Many educators have significant, well-founded concerns about AI, including energy use, bias, intellectual property rights, privacy, labor, and more. And yet, given AI’s omnipresence and growing role in society, teachers need to build AI literacy in order to better guide our students. We need to experience the usefulness and versatility of these systems to understand the choices students confront.
We’ll look at ways we can reduce AI harms by checking for bias, hallucination, and copyright violations, making choices to reduce energy use, and modeling transparency for students. We’ll discuss ethics-related differences between Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas and common chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The workshop will emphasize how a skeptical approach to AI can help us navigate this moment and maintain a sense of our own agency.
Advanced AI Assistance with Course Materials
Thursday, May 1, 2025; 10:00 AM
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Anna Mills
If you’ve tried using AI in your teaching practice but want new approaches, please come and explore with us! We’ll discuss the following ways to extend AI use beyond basic task completion:
- New ideas for AI teaching assistance from Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas
- Creating personalized AI teaching assistance workspaces with custom bots, Claude Projects, and Google’s NotebookLM
- Getting feedback on how we can improve our pedagogical approaches
- Practicing assertiveness with AI: articulate what you want and don’t settle for mediocrity
- Prompting AI to take tasks step by step
- Metaprompting: asking AI to help us use it better
- Asking for multiple, contradictory responses to get ourselves to decide what’s most important
- Generating podcasts about course materials in NotebookLM
- Voice mode: Chatting out loud with AI about course planning
You’ll leave with new ideas for creative experimentation with AI assistance to build advanced AI literacy and pursue your own teaching goals.
"New Year, New AI" Chancellor's Office AI System Webinar Series
Tues, May 13th, 2025; 12:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes
Discover the latest on Agentic AI, exploring how this next big advancement could impact education and the workforce. You’ll also gain hands-on insights into a powerful AI tool that can supplement teaching and learning on our campuses and hear forecasts and predictions for how AI will be shaping higher education in 2025 and beyond.
We’re excited to feature an update on the work of the California Education Learning Lab’s AI Initiative, launched in 2024 to empower faculty and harness AI’s potential in public higher education.
If you’re an educator, classified professional, or administrator ready to take advantage of AI’s possibilities with actionable insights and tools, this webinar is for you. As usual, there will also be opportunities to contribute to the discussion and make your voice heard.
Humanizing in the AI Era
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024; 10:00 a.m.
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
With more students opting for online classes, faculty teaching in multiple modalities and course durations, and AI capsizing traditional assessment approaches, emotions are piqued. How do we best support teaching and learning through this era of disruption and uncertainty? This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of humanizing, an instructional model scaling in California that emphasizes the influence of emotions in one's ability to thrive. We will examine what we've learned from this professional development effort and discuss how we can apply these lessons to our daily routines and relationships with colleagues.
Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with AI
Monday, Oct. 21, 2024; 3:00 p.m.
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: José Antonio Bowen
AI is rapidly changing how humans work, think and communicate: it could improve or destroy human relationships. AI is also changing how we think about average. If AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies and grading. AI is even changing creativity. Courses, learning goals and curriculum will need to change in this new age. This introduction will preview later topics and also give participants a chance to frame how they think about AI.
AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering
Monday, Nov. 4, 2024; 3:00 p.m.
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: José Antonio Bowen
Both faculty and students need a new digital literacy to apply the increased critical thinking needed in the internet age, and AI literacy is a critical new skill every teacher and graduate needs. The two largest complaints about AI responses are that they are either wrong or boring, but both are often the result of poor or bland prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision.: asking your AI to slow down and think more carefully can greatly improve results! The features of better prompts-- task, format, voice and context--are direct extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to find the right AI tool for the task, while comparing and practicing with different AIs.
AI Grading, Detection, and Policies
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024; 3:00 p.m.
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: José Antonio Bowen
AI is also changing how we think about average. If an AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies around grading: why would an employer hire a “C” student if AI can do that level of work? Together, participants will design new rubrics for an AI era that articulate how human ‘quality’ goes beyond AI. There will also be discussion around what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why.
Humanizing in the AI Era
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024; 1:00 p.m.
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
With more students opting for online classes, faculty teaching in multiple modalities and course durations, and AI capsizing traditional assessment approaches, emotions are piqued. How do we best support teaching and learning through this era of disruption and uncertainty? This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of humanizing, an instructional model scaling in California that emphasizes the influence of emotions in one's ability to thrive. We will examine what we've learned from this professional development effort and discuss how we can apply these lessons to our daily routines and relationships with colleagues.
AI Assignments and Assessments
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024; 3:00 p.m.
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: José Antonio Bowen
Generative Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series
Join an exploration of the growing prominence and promise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Conducted by leadership from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges and the California Community College Chancellor's Office, this webinar series will delve into what generative AI is, what's special about it and who is using it.
Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series #1- Overview and Introduction to Generative AI
This is the recording link for the first webinar in the Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series, held on Monday, Sept. 25th, 2023.
Overview and Introduction to Generative AI
Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series #2- Generative AI as a Tool for Teaching and Learning
This is the recording link for the second webinar in the Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series, held on Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 2023.
Generative AI as a Tool for Teaching and Learning
Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series #3- Generative AI as a General Productivity Booster Part 1
This is Part 1 of the recording link for the third webinar in the Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series, held on Tuesday, Feb. 27. The recording happened to get split in two.
Generative AI as a General Productivity Booster Part 1
Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series #3- Generative AI as a General Productivity Booster Part 2
This is Part 2 of the recording link for the third webinar in the Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series, held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.
Generative AI as a General Productivity Booster Part 2
Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series #4- AI Enhanced Analytics and Learning Platforms
This is the recording link for the fourth and final webinar in the Vision 2030: Generative AI in Higher Education Series, held on May 7, 2024.
AI Enhanced Analytics and Learning Platforms
New Year, New AI: Updates, Insights, & Professional Development Opportunities
Hosted by Evan Hawkins and Craig Hayward on Sept. 17, 2024, participants learned about what has been happening in AI since our last webinar in April, including updates on the new Digital Center for Innovation, Transformation, and Equity, the AI Fellows program, the NVIDIA MOU and an introduction to a variety of high quality, free professional development options. Stay ahead of AI’s growing role in higher education and discover tools to drive innovation and learning!
New Year, New AI: Updates, Insights, & Professional Development Opportunities
Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Open Educational Resources (OER) to Support Student Learning
Employing AI to create ancillary resources for OER is one of the many ways that generative AI can support both teaching and learning. While many faculty have experimented with free AI tools, many have not had the opportunity to investigate the more sophisticated tools that are not freely available. To maximize the potential of AI, what should you keep in mind when selecting such tools? Join us to explore the practical considerations for evaluating and selecting AI tools as well as view demonstrations on how to use AI to develop ancillary resources. This webinar was held on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.
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Innovations like AI are helping us teach and engage students in ways that are more personalized, accessible, and effective than ever before. We also face challenges alongside these exciting advancements. How can we ensure that technology is used ethically and equitably? How do we balance innovation with the complexities it brings?
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) technologies are a cornerstone of current systems design and implementation. Our goal is to help match the ever increasing labor demand with industry supported community college efforts, creating model curriculum and providing professional development.
