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Teaching Smarter with AI: Enhancing Learning While Reclaiming Time

In this self-paced course, educators learn how to use generative AI to enhance learning, streamline teaching tasks, and reclaim time through thoughtful, values-aligned practices.

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Group Enrollment Pricing
1 person$329 per person
2-4 people$295 per person
5-9 people$209 per person
10-19 people$165 per person
20-39 people$139 per person
Group Enrollment discounts are applied in the cart.
The course enrollment will expire one year after activation.

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Teaching with AI can feel overwhelming, with endless possibilities and important questions about where it truly adds value and how to use it without compromising your voice, judgment, or connection with students. Teaching Smarter with AI: Enhancing Learning While Reclaiming Time is a practical, hands-on course designed to cut through that noise. Across six self-paced modules, expert faculty guide you through how generative AI can support course design, discussions, feedback, assessment, and everyday teaching tasks—helping you enhance student learning while reducing workload. Through short videos, real-world examples, guided reflection, and applied activities, you’ll explore not just how to use AI, but when to use it and when not to.

This course goes beyond theory to focus on small, high-impact changes you can implement right away. You’ll work with reusable templates, explore ethical and transparent AI practices, and build your own personalized AI Teaching Framework to guide future decisions. By the end, you’ll have practical workflows, greater confidence, and a clear strategy for integrating AI in ways that are intentional, sustainable, and aligned with your teaching values.

Topics Covered:

  • Module 1: Deciding with Intent: Understanding Your Values and Goals
  • Module 2: Evaluating Before Editing: Tradeoffs, Payoffs, and UDL
  • Module 3: Facilitating Learning Interactions with AI
  • Module 4: Preserving Instructor Voice: Feedback and Assessment
  • Module 5: Course Materials, Accessibility, and Selective Improvement
  • Module 6: Sustaining Smarter Teaching Practices with AI
  • Module 7: Conclusion and Next Steps

Learning Goals:

At the conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Make your course material meaningful and relatable to students
  • Design and implement effective brain-based strategies to enhance learning outcomes
  • Inspire enthusiasm and motivation among your students
  • Better connect with students with techniques that relate to them through their interests and passions
  • Develop questioning strategies that stimulate critical thinking and foster meaningful discussions

How Does This Magna Online Course Work?

  • Asynchronous, self-paced learning
    Learn on your own schedule with 24/7 access, allowing you to move at a pace that fits your workload and revisit content anytime.
  • Structured modules with milestones
    Follow a clear, step-by-step path with built-in checkpoints that keep you progressing and building skills as you go.
  • Discussions that function as a thinking space
    Reflect and explore ideas through low-pressure prompts designed for thinking aloud and learning from others.
  • Assignments that function as a doing space
    Apply concepts through hands-on tasks that help you create practical, ready-to-use teaching materials.
  • Downloadable tools and templates
    Use reusable resources like templates and checklists to easily implement what you learn in your own courses.
  • Certificate of completion
    Earn a certificate to document your professional development and share your achievement with your institution.
  • Credly digital badge
    Receive a shareable digital badge to showcase your skills and add to your LinkedIn or professional portfolio.

Who Will Benefit from This Course:

  • College and university faculty (full-time, adjunct, and graduate instructors)
  • Instructional designers and learning experience designers
  • Teaching and learning center staff and faculty developers
  • Academic leaders and program coordinators
  • Graduate students and early-career educators preparing to teach in higher education

Group Enrollment:

Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.

For 10 or more seats, please contact Magna Sales at sales@magnapubs.com or call 800-433-0499 ext. 183 to receive a customized quote.

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Product Code: PO26BA

Meet Your Presenters

  • Nate Pritts
  • Ian Selig
  • JJ Wallace
  • Bethany F. Schultz
  • Christa Sandidge
  • Lisa Low
  • Jean Mandernach
  • Deanna McGaughey-Summers
  • Jeremy Caplan
  • Jacqueline Towson
  • Michael G. Strawser
  • Rhonda Davis

Meet Your Presenter

Purchase Options

Group Enrollment Pricing
1 person$299 per person
2-9 people$229 per person
10-49 people$179 per person
50-99 people$159 per person
Group Enrollment discounts are applied in the cart.
The course enrollment will expire one year after activation.
If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, you may cancel the order within 30 days of purchase and receive a full refund.
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