{"id":131778,"date":"2026-08-24T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131778"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:53:42","slug":"exploring-learning-science-ai-join-our-faculty-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/exploring-learning-science-ai-join-our-faculty-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Learning Science + AI: Join Our Faculty Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, we are launching our first Faculty Learning Community (FLC) and seeking 8 curious instructors to explore how generative AI can enhance student learning. Setting aside meta-debates on AI ethics, this group will focus on applying learning science with genAI tools to improve assignments, course policies, assessments, and lesson plans.<\/p>\n<p>Using\u00a0<i>The Science of Learning Meets AI<\/i>\u00a0by Lewis D. Ludwig and Todd D. Zakrajsek as our guide, we will collaborate, share challenges, experiment, and develop concrete action steps for our teaching. By year&#8217;s end, members will draft an implementation plan and share key takeaways with the broader OWU community.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10Xj_aRb2o2MZ-eFiMwxzK0VI-sivrdgk9VEBfes_Wb0\/edit?tab=t.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10Xj_aRb2o2MZ-eFiMwxzK0VI-sivrdgk9VEBfes_Wb0\/edit?tab%3Dt.0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1787431863990000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Cmv78Dj071-IsnDAS9eiI\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to learn more about this FLC and fill out this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfwW-9n1SddfNEz-AB0OkCX2xJDWFkYcojipkTTN6Q05BfSVw\/viewform?usp=header\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfwW-9n1SddfNEz-AB0OkCX2xJDWFkYcojipkTTN6Q05BfSVw\/viewform?usp%3Dheader&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1787431863990000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1IRans2vS6L85PqKYsNCY3\">survey<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Smith Center for Faculty Excellence<br \/>\nContact: Andrea Colvin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arcolvin@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arcolvin@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, we are launching our first Faculty Learning Community (FLC) and seeking 8 curious instructors to explore how generative AI can enhance student learning. Setting aside meta-debates on AI ethics, this group will focus on applying learning science with genAI tools to improve assignments, course policies, assessments, and lesson plans. Using\u00a0The Science of Learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131779,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131778\/revisions\/131779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}