AI Confidence Series
The AI Confidence Series is a year-long professional development initiative designed to help Jax State faculty build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to thoughtfully navigate AI in their teaching. Led by Dr. Meghan Burroughs, Presidential Faculty Fellow for Quality Teaching with AI, the series focuses on practical, evidence-informed strategies that support quality teaching and meaningful student learning.
With nine interactive sessions across three learning tracks—Foundations, Applied Practice, and AI Pedagogy Leader—faculty can participate at the level that best fits their experience and goals. Attend individual sessions that interest you, or complete all three sessions within a track and its associated deliverable to earn a digital microcredential.
All sessions will be offered in person and recorded, with recordings, resources, and microcedential activities available through the AI Confidence Series Canvas course.
How Can I Participate?
The AI Confidence Series is designed to be flexible. You do not have to complete a learning track or earn a microcredential to participate.
Choose the level of participation that works for you:
- Attend Individual Sessions
Register for any session that interests you. There is no requirement to complete the other sessions within that track. - Complete a Learning Track
Attend all three sessions within one learning track and complete the track-specific deliverable to earn a digital microcredential. - Complete Multiple Tracks
Faculty may complete one, two, or all three learning tracks based on their interests and professional goals.
All sessions will be offered in person and recorded. Recordings, presentation materials, supplemental resources, deliverables, and micro-credential progress will be available through the AI Confidence Series Canvas course.
Choose Your Learning Track
Not everyone is starting in the same place with AI. The AI Confidence Series offers three progressive learning tracks so that you can choose the sessions and level of engagement that best fit your experience and goals.
Build Confidence & Develop a Pedagogical Foundation
Designed for faculty who are new to AI or want a stronger foundation for making informed decisions about its role in their teaching.
Explore AI capabilities and limitations, responsible and ethical use, accessibility and equity, academic integrity, and the relationship between AI and meaningful student learning.
Best fit if you're thinking:
"I want to better understand AI and determine how it fits—or doesn't fit—within my teaching."
Translate Ideas into Teaching Practice
Ready to move from understanding AI to making intentional instructional decisions? This track focuses on applying AI concepts to course design, assignments, assessment, feedback, and other teaching practices.
Explore ways AI can support learning while maintaining transparency, assessment integrity, and meaningful evidence of student learning.
Best fit if you're thinking:
"I understand the basics. Now, how do I actually apply this to my courses?"
Lead & Advance AI-Informed Teaching
Designed for faculty ready to move beyond their own classroom and contribute to broader conversations about AI-informed teaching.
Explore emerging developments in AI, share effective practices, collaborate with and mentor colleagues, and contribute to instructional innovation across Jax State.
Best fit if you're thinking:
"I'm ready to share what I've learned and help advance quality teaching with AI at Jax State."
Take Your Learning Further (Next section after the above dropdown boxes)
Want to go beyond attending individual sessions? The AI Confidence Series offers additional opportunities to recognize your professional learning and put what you've learned into practice. Explore the options below to learn more about earning a digital microcredential or applying for an AI Teaching Innovation Microgrant.Faculty who want to take their participation a step further can earn a digital microcredential for each learning track completed.
To earn a track's microcredential:
- Attend all three sessions in the learning track + Complete the track-specific deliverable
- Each deliverable gives you an opportunity to apply what you've learned to your own teaching without creating unnecessary additional work.
Foundations
AI Readiness Reflection & Alignment Statement:
Reflect on your current understanding and confidence with AI, how AI aligns with your teaching philosophy, opportunities and challenges within your courses, and your goals for moving forward.
Applied Practice
AI Teaching Action Plan:
Develop a practical plan for incorporating AI-aware teaching into one of your courses. Your plan might address an assignment or learning activity, AI expectations, transparency, student verification or reflection, and the pedagogical reasoning behind your decisions.
AI Pedagogy Leader
AI Teaching Leadership Portfolio
Document your implementation of AI-informed teaching practices, reflect on their instructional impact, and provide evidence of how you have shared, collaborated, or mentored colleagues around AI-informed teaching.
Have an idea for an AI-aware assignment or learning activity that you're ready to develop further?
Faculty may apply for a limited number of AI Teaching Innovation Microgrants to support the development or redesign of instructional materials for classroom implementation.
Microgrants are optional and separate from the microcredential requirements. You do not need to receive a microgrant to earn an AI Confidence Series microcredential.
Selected faculty will receive implementation support and contribute their finalized instructional materials to the Jax State AI Teaching Repository.
Learn More About AI Teaching Innovation Microgrants