From Panic to Practice: Helping Faculty Move from “Catching Cheating” to “Catching Learning” (Separate registration is required.)

When conversations about AI and academic integrity stall at “catching cheating,” faculty miss opportunities to redesign teaching for deeper learning. This interactive session supports academic technology and faculty-development professionals in helping AI-skeptical instructors shift from detection to learning-centered course design. Participants will explore practical, evidence-informed strategies to reduce anxiety about misuse, engage resistant faculty through familiar pedagogical values, and redesign assignments to make student thinking visible and authentic. Through a sequenced set of hands-on activities—including a faculty-resistance diagnosis exercise, facilitation rehearsal with realistic scenarios, a guided assignment redesign lab, peer critique, and a campus implementation planning sprint—attendees will actively apply these strategies in real time. Participants will leave with a reframing script, a redesigned assignment or faculty-development prompt, and a draft action plan they can immediately implement to improve teaching and learning in an AI-enabled classroom.

Outcomes of this workshop:

• Diagnose patterns of faculty resistance to generative AI and apply facilitation strategies that shift conversations productively.
• Reframe academic integrity concerns into learning-centered design approaches that improve teaching and assessment. 
• Build a campus-ready action plan for adapting the workshop strategies to local faculty, disciplinary, and organizational contexts.

Note: Participants who successfully complete this preconference workshop will be eligible to receive an EDUCAUSE microcredential. To earn this digital badge, you must complete a brief workshop evaluation and share two key learning outcomes from your experience. All registered participants will receive an email on October 5 with instructions for completing these steps. Completion of both is required. To learn how to accept and make the most of your microcredential, visit the EDUCAUSE Microcredential website.