The AI RiTL FLC is a collaboration between the AI2 Center and the Center for Teaching Excellence, representing an innovative, interdisciplinary community dedicated to the advancement and integration of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Building on the foundations established in the "Harnessing AI for Teaching & Learning FLC," this FLC allows faculty to conduct scholarly research about teaching implementations of AI at UF. 

Deadline: 

August 29, 2025 

Learn more here. | Apply here! 

The Center for Instructional Technology and Training and the Center for Teaching Excellence are sponsoring a faculty learning community titled “Harnessing AI for Teaching & Learning." This FLC explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning. Members will engage in a series of active learning workshops to apply AI across diverse educational contexts and develop or revise course content with AI in mind, leveraging new opportunities created by AI tools. The FLC will collaborate on Research in Teaching & Learning (RiTL) projects to be shared with the wider UF community at the semi-annual symposiums. 
 
This FLC is designed to build a vibrant AI-focused faculty community, foster practical AI application skills, and promote ethical considerations in AI for education. Participants will gain hands-on experience and develop projects that contribute to the evolving landscape of AI in teaching and learning at UF.

Application Deadline: Please register by 12:00 pm on August 23, 2025

Learn more here | Apply here. 

This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) will unite those of us at the forefront of using emerging AI technologies to adapt and create open educational resources (OER) and practices. You will identify one or more courses you teach and use AI to co-author OER for these courses.  

We will work together to create educational materials and explore the boundaries of AI co-authored course content. This may involve experimenting with AI parameters, testing different models, and crafting and refining prompts. We can leverage our existing resources (lecture notes, slide decks, syllabi, etc.) along with training large language models to produce content for editing and testing with students. We will gain practical resources and guidance from UF experts in AI and instructional design. At the conclusion of the FLC, we will use best practices for sharing our materials based on our individual outputs. An integral part of learning communities is sharing our gained insights and work with the teaching and learning community at UF through Interface and/or the RiTL Symposium. 

Deadline
Applications are due Friday, August 29, 2025. 

Learn more. | Apply here!

Rising Above Transactional Education to Transformational Education 

Join us in transforming higher education by promoting student well-being through the Gallup Big Six Experiences! This second cohort of our Faculty Learning Community (FLC) brings together educators from member institutions of the LearningWell Coalition and the SEC who are committed to enhancing the quality of human connections in college, ultimately fostering life-long well-being and career success for students. The work of the FLC is grounded in the Gallup Big Six Experiences.

Overview
Since 2014, the Gallup Foundation has conducted surveys to understand alumni engagement, well-being, and attachment to their alma mater. Consistently, students who say they had all (or even some) of the Big Six Student Experiences report greater career and personal well-being. These experiences highlight the importance of supportive faculty-student relationships and experiential learning.

This FLC represents an exciting opportunity to shape the way the Gallup Big Six Student Experiences are understood and implemented, not only at LearningWell Coalition member institutions and SEC partner institutions, but also across the globe.

FLC Activities and Outcome
Building upon the open-source deliverable created by the participants of last year's inaugural FLC, this next cohort will create deliverables that expand the practice of fomenting a relationship-rich and experience-rich education for our students. To jumpstart our time together, we will select a book to serve as our common reader to frame our initial sessions, and guest speakers will inspire and motivate our work throughout the year. We will work remotely in groups and connect with fellow participants from institutions of higher learning across the country, as well as have the opportunity to meet in person at the annual LearningWell Coalition Conference (www.learningwell.org) in Spring 2026. Faculty who complete this year-long effort will receive a Student Well-Being Advocate Credly certificate issued by the University of Florida's Center for Teaching Excellence.

Deadline:
Applications are due by Friday, September 5th, 2025.

Learn More | Apply here 

RiTL FLC is a community centered on understanding and applying the fundamentals of teaching-as-research: the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching practices that advance the learning experiences and outcomes of students and teachers. UF instructors, staff, graduate students, and postdocs who are in the beginning stages of research in teaching and learning will develop their knowledge of scholarship on teaching and learning, as well as available resources on campus, in order to create educational research proposals, applying what they have learned in the FLC to their unique disciplines. 

Completion of the RiTL FLC will qualify you to receive ONE of the following: 

1. A Faculty Learning Community Certificate in the Center for Teaching Excellence’s Passport Program. 

1. A Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Practitioner Certificate in the Center for Teaching Excellence’s Passport Program (for graduate students and postdocs). 

Application Deadline: Friday, August 22, 2025 

Learn more here | Apply now!  

Overview

The FARPET Crew has created a flexible research-based tool for the Peer Evaluation of Teaching, specifically for lectures. The Formative Assessment Rubric for Peer Evaluation of Teaching has been piloted for use within the veterinary academic community but we believe that it is applicable to other health science and non-health science fields. This FLC was created to provide a collaborative space for educators from various fields who are passionate about peer evaluation of teaching and faculty development. Participants in this FLC will get to expand, adapt, and customize the FARPET peer evaluation tool for use in a broad range of disciplines. Register for FARPET.

Goals

• Create opportunities for collaboration among diverse educators
• Expand and customize the peer evaluation of teaching tool for broader use across diverse fields
• Maximize ease of use and adaptability of the instrument to meet the needs of educators

Overview

The Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellows are a group who demonstrate excellence in online teaching. The Fellows provide guidance to members of the UF teaching community who wish to improve their online courses and complete online course reviews. Fellows also serve as ambassadors and reviewers for the Pathways Online Course Reviews process.

Teaching Excellence Fellows advise in these areas of the course review process:

• Best practices for writing and submitting a self-review
• How to interpret and incorporate feedback from your review team
• How to efficiently “pay-it-forward” as a Reviewer

*Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow applications will be accepted April-May of each year.

Overview

To connect faculty and staff committed to integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in educational environments at the University of Florida. Register for the Sustainable Development Goals in the Classroom FLC. 

Goals

• Create awareness of the SDGs, their importance, and application in their classroom(s), department, college, and/or community affiliation(s).
• Actively collaborate with others to share relevant resources and research surrounding sustainability and the SDGs.
• Develop a classroom resource during your time in the SDG Faculty Learning Community.

Schedule

Kick-Off Workshop – Sept 19 @2pm 

Learning Community Dates (Fall) – Tuesdays @Noon-1pm:

Oct 4 – Initial meeting & Introductions

• Resource highlight
• Overview of “Big Idea Project” 

Oct 18 – World Food Day (celebrated Oct. 16) Discussion

• SDGs connection to Food  
• SDGs overall role

Nov 1 – Virtual Exchange as a tool for the integration of SDG related challenges into the classroom

Nov 15 – SDG resource show & tell and project development discussion

Nov 29 – Thinking forward to Spring and beyond

• Reflect on resource development progress
• Guest speakers from across campus 

Dec 13 – Project development and social time

Open educational resources (OERs) have flourished as institutions and educators respond to soaring textbook costs and the potential for teaching with customized, free online resources. To promote the adoption of OERs and other affordable materials that make an education at the University of Florida less expensive and more equitable, Affordable UF is seeking applicants for the Fall 2023/Spring 2024 OER Learning Community.  

Five participants will earn a $1000 stipend to join facilitators and guest speakers from across disciplines in their efforts to make their courses as financially inclusive as possible by eliminating or substantially lowering course material costs. The emphasis of the community will be OER, which are learning materials that carry open licenses and allow anyone to freely read, share, and modify them. These permissions also enable instructors to adapt OER for greater cultural responsiveness and accessibility. The OER Learning Community is supported by the Center for Teaching Excellence in partnership with the UF Smathers Libraries, the UF Center for Instructional Training and Technology, and University Press of Florida. Experts from these units will work closely with participants throughout the program. External guest advisors will complement expertise available at UF. 

If you have been interested in taking first steps to transitioning your course to free or low-cost materials but need support to do so, consider applying to this learning community.  

About the Program 

Learning Communities are peer-led groups of faculty, staff, and graduate students who engage in an active, collaborative, year–long program structured to provide encouragement, support, and reflection. Over the course of the OER Learning Community, you will engage with the cohort to:

• Understand the spectrum of affordable learning materials available openly through UF Libraries Services, with an emphasis on OER 
• Search for OER that may be relevant to the courses you teach in one or more repositories 
• Evaluate course materials for basic accessibility best practices and cultural responsiveness; identify opportunities to enhance and customize these aspects of OER you find or develop 
• Identify and interpret open licenses associated with OER created by others and those you wish to apply to your own materials 
• Connect with both internal and external expertise to facilitate successful adoption and evaluation of OER 
• Create an openly licensed learning object  
• Develop an initial course map matching your course objectives to existing OER and other free and affordable material options 

Participant Expectations 

Attend all required meetings. Participants must attend all 8 required meetings and attend 75% of optional meetings. Facilitators or guests may decide with their group to attend a workshop in replacement of or in addition to the normal monthly meetings. 

Create a sharable OER activity. One of the requirements for the learning community is to share something beyond the cohort in the spirit of actively contributing to the open education movement. This can take several forms, such as openly licensing a learning object (such as a syllabus, lesson plan, or module) or a proposed alternative. 

Propose and construct your final project. Each member of the learning community should complete one of the final projects based on their own personal goals: 

• A course map matching some of your course objectives to existing OER and other free and affordable material options 
• A project roadmap that charts your course for adapting or developing new OER 

Attend the wrap-up session. Each learning community member will present their final OER project at an event hosted by the UF Center for Teaching Excellence.  

Registration 

Acceptance into this FLC is by application only. The application period closes July 31, 2023. 

Apply now!

The Center for Instructional Technology and Training and the Center for Teaching Excellence are sponsoring a faculty learning community tilted “Harnessing AI for Teaching & Learning.” This FLC collectively explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for teaching and learning. In the fall, members of this FLC will participate in a series of active learning workshops to apply AI within a diverse range of educational contexts. In the spring, members will develop or revise course content with AI in mind, leveraging the new opportunities created by AI tools. The FLC will collaborate on Research in Teaching & Learning (RiTL) projects that will be shared with the wider UF community at the semi-annual symposiums.  

Goals  

Members of the FLC will be able to:  

• Describe Generative AI (Gen AI), its implications for teaching, and how it is situated within the larger field of AI 
• Create content for courses with Gen AI  
• Design assignments and assessments that leverage Gen AI 
• Discuss ethical and accessibility considerations of using Gen AI tools 
• Evaluate emerging AI tools for appropriate learning applications 

Criteria for Accepting Participants   

We are looking for an engaged community of learners who are excited about harnessing the power of AI for teaching in learning. A diversity of colleges, teaching levels, and technical expertise  

This learning community is for you if:  

• You like trying new technologies for teaching and learning  
• You love to discuss and share new ideas with your colleagues  
• You are from any college and department at UF, with any level of experience with AI  
• You are available in the fall to meet bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM in the Bryant Space Center  

Registration 

Acceptance into this FLC is by application only. The application period closes Friday, August 25, 2023.

Apply now! 

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Overview 

RiTL FLC is a reading, learning, and writing community centered on teaching-as-research: the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching practices that advance the learning experiences and outcomes of students and teachers. UF instructors, staff, graduate students and postdocs will develop their knowledge of scholarship on teaching and learning, as well as available resources on campus, in order to create educational research proposals, applying what they have learned in the FLC to their unique disciplines.   

Goals 

• Participants will learn about RiTL, its related acronyms, and relevant UF campus resources, as well as read and research RiTL approaches and methods in their own discipline / field. 

• Participants will create potential research questions, a research plan, and a final RiTL research proposal based in their unique teaching experience, coursework, and pedagogical interests. 

Participant expectations 

The RiTL FLC is for you if: 

• You appreciate teaching as a practice that is constantly changing based on pedagogical evidence. 
• You want to research and identify evidence-based learning techniques to apply and assess in your own classrooms. 
• You love to hear what other instructors are doing on campus and share your ideas with colleagues. 
• You are excited to be a part of a teaching community where we are all learning and contributing to the RiTL knowledgebase. 
• You are available and willing to commit to meeting bi-weekly on Mondays 1:00-3:00 p.m. in the Teaching Center starting September 18 during the Fall 2023 semester, continuing this work and your projects during the Spring semester 2024 both together - as a FLC - and individually. 

Resources/Topics: 

• SoTL, ISETL, & ISSOTL 
• CIRTL: Teaching-as-Research (TAR) 
• Bridging Theory to Practice (BT2P) 
• Qualitative vs Quantitative Research 
• Funding Sources 
• IRB and Ethical Practices 

Apply now! 

Teaching with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the SEC Faculty Learning Community (FLC):

In this FLC, we will develop a comprehensive understanding of AI and its implications for teaching and learning in higher education. This eight-module course and the accompanying discussion sessions will cover topics such as how AI impacts academic integrity, ethics, legal issues, and student learning. You will have an opportunity to experiment with AI tools, develop an effective AI syllabus statement, and incorporate AI tools and applications into your practice. This FLC meets every three weeks on Wednesdays from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM starting September 27. For more information and to apply click here.