AI Horizons
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) is hosting generative artificial intelligence (AI) events at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout the AI Horizon series at CITL faculty and staff will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops, guest talks, and conversations on how GenAI impacts the future of education and beyond. Make sure you subscribe to our monthly AI Horizons newsletter.
Monday, June 15, 2026
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3:00 - 4:00 pmArmory room 182 and online via ZoomOur two presenters will discuss the risks to both academic integrity and student learning associated with the use of AI in writing assignments. They will also outline strategies to curb AI usage and help students take ownership of their academic work.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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9:30 - 10:00 amArmory room 182 and online via ZoomAn overview of the new Generative AI Fluency Certificate, a flexible program designed to help learners use generative AI thoughtfully, responsibly, and effectively. This session will introduce the certificate structure, highlight key module topics such as AI literacy, human-AI collaboration and discuss how the modules can support responsible AI use in your courses.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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An Efficient, Effective Assessment Strategy for the GenAI Era with a Computer-Based Testing Facility
11:00 am - 12:00 pmI’ll outline a more modern, holistic strategy for assessment, that focuses on a "two-lane" approach, where the student’s fluency of building block skills is assessed without access to AI (lane 1) and students proficiency with using genAI to solve incompletely specified problems is assessed with open-ended projects (lane 2).
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2:00 - 3:00 pmArmory room 182 and online via ZoomLearn about the generative AI tools currently available to campus through Technology Services and how they can be used responsibly in teaching, learning, and professional work. This session will introduce available tools, discuss appropriate use cases, and highlight key considerations such as data privacy, accuracy, accessibility, and human oversight.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmArmory room 182 and online via Zoom
Monday, June 22, 2026
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3:00 - 4:00 pmArmory room 182 and online via ZoomAI has the power, when used correctly and responsibly, to positively affect the lives of the campus community. From document conversion, to simulations and role playing, we will demonstrate some of the AI driven applications and interactions that our new team have been developing to aid in student engagement, virtualized experiential learning, and accessibility.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmArmory room 182 and online via ZoomFor three years I’ve taught a class with a unique dependency; each semester I need a detailed plan for a video game - a narrative, locations, characters - and a gameplay loop that ties it all together. AI helps to meet this need, but rather than using it to generate content, I leverage it as a framework for quickly externalizing, organizing and iterating ideas.
