The Teaching and Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) webinar series is designed to equip educators (faculty, instructional staff, and graduate teaching assistants) with practical knowledge and strategies for integrating GenAI into teaching and learning. This series supports innovative instructional design and helps educators create more engaging, effective learning experiences for their students.
Learning Pathway
The GenAI Webinar Series follows a three-phase learning pathway that helps educators build AI literacy, apply GenAI tools to teaching and assessment, and reflect on how GenAI informs their instructional practices.
Responsible Generative AI: Empowering Tomorrow’s Innovators
- Explore foundational concepts, ethical use, and responsible student expectations.
Tinkering with Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Experiment with GenAI tools and prompting techniques to build AI literacy and identify early teaching applications.
Creating Engaging Course Content with Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Enhance clarity, accessibility, and engagement of course materials using GenAI-supported strategies aligned with UDL principles.
Active Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Design discussions, case studies, and simulations with GenAI to support collaboration, interaction, and deeper learning.
Reimagining Assessment with Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Use GenAI to support formative feedback, authentic assessment design, and transparency in student evaluation.
Rethinking Your Teaching Philosophy in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Reflect on personal teaching values and articulate how GenAI will inform future teaching decisions.
Requirements
Those who attend all sessions and complete the reflection activity at the end of the series will receive both a certificate of completion and a digital badge, recognizing their commitment to innovative teaching practices.
For those who missed previous webinars, this is your chance to catch up and still earn the badge. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and gain valuable recognition!
Not interested in the certificate? You may attend individual webinars that interest you.
Webinars Offered Spring 2026
Wednesday, January 28, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an integral part of our world. However, it's crucial to understand that AI complements human innovation and creativity rather than replacing it. In this webinar, we'll explore how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can empower learners and educators alike, fostering responsible and innovative use across disciplines.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define Generative AI and explain how Generative AI works.
- Recognize the level of familiarity high school students have with using Generative AI.
- Develop a lesson plan with Generative AI elements for student use.
- Create clear expectations of Generative AI use in your classroom. Register
Thursday, February 5, 11:40 - 12:55 pm
Discover the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to support your teaching and enhance student learning. This session explores practical strategies for experimenting with GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Examine how foundational prompt-writing techniques and hands-on exploration can build your AI literacy and inform the teaching and learning content you design.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define Generative Artificial Intelligence and prompt writing in accessible, practical terms.
- Explore four GenAI tools—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to compare capabilities and uses relevant to teaching and student learning.
- Apply basic prompt-writing strategies to experiment with GenAI and generate outputs that could support student learning or instructional tasks.
- Identify opportunities for meaningful integration of GenAI into teaching and learning—such as explanations, examples, feedback, question generation, or activity design. Register
Wednesday, February 25, 1:10 - 2:00 pm
Examine how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can enhance the clarity, accessibility, and engagement of your course materials. This session explores practical strategies for using GenAI tools—such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to support course content creation and strengthen course design. Examine how GenAI aligns with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to promote flexibility, inclusivity, and deeper learning experiences.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Apply effective prompt-writing strategies to create or refine course content that aligns with desired learning outcomes.
- Use Generative AI tools to generate clear, engaging, and accessible content that supports student learning.
- Integrate UDL principles—including engagement, representation, and action/expression—to design flexible and inclusive learning experiences.
- Identify responsible and transparent practices for using GenAI in course content creation and design. Register
Wednesday, April 1, 1:10 - 2:00 pm
Explore how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can support the design of interactive, student-centered learning activities. This session explores practical strategies for using GenAI tools—such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to design discussions, case studies, and simulations that enhance engagement and deepen learning. Examine how prompt-writing techniques and intentional use of GenAI can strengthen active learning, promote critical thinking, and create more meaningful learning experiences for your students.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Apply prompt-writing strategies to generate or adapt active learning activities that support engagement and student learning.
- Design interactive learning experiences—such as discussions, case studies, and simulations—that leverage GenAI to enhance participation and collaboration.
- Evaluate GenAI-generated activities to determine alignment with learning outcomes and opportunities for refinement.
- Identify ways to integrate GenAI intentionally into learning activities to promote deeper understanding, creativity, and reflection. Register
Wednesday, April 8, 12:00 - 12:50 pm
Enhance the authenticity, clarity, and meaningfulness of your assessments with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). This session explores practical strategies for using GenAI tools—such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to design assessment tasks, generate formative feedback, and support student reflection. Examine how intentional prompting and transparent use of GenAI can strengthen assessment for learning, promote critical thinking, and support deeper student learning.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between traditional and GenAI-supported assessment approaches and describe where GenAI can add value.
- Apply prompt-writing strategies to design or refine assessments that measure student learning and support learning processes.
- Use GenAI tools to generate formative feedback, reflection prompts, and authentic assessment components aligned with course outcomes.
- Identify ethical and transparent practices for responsibly incorporating GenAI into assessment design and student work expectations. Register
Tuesday, April 21, 11:40 am - 12:55 pm
A teaching philosophy statement provides a concise description of an instructor's perspective on teaching, student learning, methodologies, and implementation, and institutions typically request a teaching philosophy statement from applicants for faculty positions and as part of the tenure and promotion process.
What, then, is your teaching philosophy? What aspects should you reflect upon, write, or include? And importantly, how has the writing of this document changed as a result of ChatGPT, both in your perspective on this fundamental shift in higher education as well as document construction assistance? This will be a working webinar, where we will discuss strategies for composing the statement, incorporating time for personalized theme development, and tips for using ChatGPT prompts in writing it. Participants will leave with a thematic outline and components of their statement, and guidelines to continue crafting it.
NOTE: For you and other participants to benefit the most in the time available, this webinar requires that you do some reflective writing in advance of the session. Register
How to Earn the Digital Badge
- Review the required webinars.
- Register for and attend all required webinars within the time frame specified.
- Complete the reflection activity that synthesizes the learning across all three phases.
- Look for an email from cte@sc.edu with your digital badge.
How to Check Your Progress
Participants can check their progress online by following the steps below.
- Log into Registration and Tracking System for Workshops and Events using your CTE Training Account credentials.
- Click on the specific learning plan for the program you would like to view. The learning plan button is located on the left-hand side in the menu screen.
- Click “View” to generate a personalized learning plan status report. The report will show the workshops you have taken, and remaining workshop requirements.
The learning plans also provide a status progress update.
- Partial means you have met some of the requirements.
- Complete means you have met all the requirements.
- Not Started means you have not completed any of the requirements.
Completed your digital badge?
At the conclusion of each semester, reports are run to determine who has completed each program. Digital badges will be emailed. If you do not receive your digital bdge by the middle of the following semester, kindly contact cte@sc.edu for assistance.