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Join us for the Fall Webinar Series!
Are your learners prepared to thrive in an AI-enhanced world?
This four-part webinar series explores practical strategies for developing AI literacy, fostering human–AI collaboration, addressing ethical challenges, and supporting learners as they use AI to enhance inquiry, critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning.
Upskilling for AI Integration: Building Advanced Competencies for Educators
Upskilling for AI Integration: Building Advanced Competencies for Educators
Upskilling for AI Integration: Building Advanced Competencies for Educators
September 11, 2026 | 12:30-1:00 PM CT
As AI continues to reshape learning environments, educators need more than technical familiarity—they need the skills to thoughtfully integrate AI into teaching and learning. This session explores the competencies educators need to support AI-enhanced learning, including AI literacy, critical evaluation of AI-generated content, instructional decision-making, and ethical considerations. Participants will examine practical strategies for strengthening their own capabilities while preparing learners to navigate an AI-rich world.
Redefining Learning and Expertise in an AI-Enhanced World
Upskilling for AI Integration: Building Advanced Competencies for Educators
Upskilling for AI Integration: Building Advanced Competencies for Educators
October 2, 2026 | 12:30-1:00 PM CT
Artificial intelligence is transforming how people access information, solve problems, make decisions, and create knowledge. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into learning and professional practice, traditional notions of expertise are evolving. This webinar explores AI as a cognitive partner and examines how human capabilities and AI technologies can complement one another to enhance learning, productivity, and innovation. Participants will explore the evolving nature of expertise, discuss the opportunities and challenges of human-AI collaboration, and identify strategies to help learners work effectively with AI while maintaining critical thinking, creativity, ethical judgment, and independent decision-making.
Ethical AI Use: Helping Learners Navigate Real-World Challenges
Guiding Students to Use AI: Strategies for Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking
Guiding Students to Use AI: Strategies for Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking
October 23, 2026 | 12:30-1:00 PM CT
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into education and professional practice, learners need the skills to use these tools ethically, critically, and responsibly. This session moves beyond broad ethical principles to examine real-world challenges related to transparency, bias, privacy, authorship, and academic integrity. Through practical examples and scenarios, participants will explore strategies to help learners evaluate AI-generated content, recognize ethical risks, make informed decisions, and understand their responsibilities when using AI. The session emphasizes how educators can foster ethical reasoning, critical judgment, and accountability while preparing learners to use AI in ways that align with educational, professional, and societal expectations.
Guiding Students to Use AI: Strategies for Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking
Guiding Students to Use AI: Strategies for Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking
Guiding Students to Use AI: Strategies for Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking
November 6, 2026 | 12:30-1:00 PM CT
The greatest value of AI in education may not be its ability to provide answers, but its potential to support deeper learning. This session focuses on practical strategies to help students use AI to ask better questions, explore ideas, reflect, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Participants will examine approaches to designing learning experiences that encourage inquiry, critical thinking, creativity, and responsible AI use, helping learners become thoughtful, effective AI users rather than passive consumers of information.
Facilitators
Simone C. O. Conceição
Simone C. O. Conceição
Simone C. O. Conceição
Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an internationally recognized expert in adult learning, distance education, and digital teaching strategies. She brings decades of experience helping educators and professionals integrate practical, learner-centered digital tools into their work.
Lilian H. Hill
Simone C. O. Conceição
Simone C. O. Conceição
Professor Emerita at the University of Southern Mississippi and a specialist in adult and higher education with deep expertise in digital learning, information literacy, and graduate student development. She brings practical, accessible strategies that support informed tool use and skill development across academic, professional, and everyday contexts.