A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a faculty-led, collaborative group focused on a shared challenge. Unlike one-time workshops, it builds ongoing community, supports peer learning, and produces tangible results for broader impact. This year-long PLC (October-March) is designed to help educators prepare for future classrooms through collaborative discussions on future-ready teaching with a focus on artificial intelligence. Participants create digital microlearning content and portfolios, with structured activities, facilitator guidance, and support.
Faculty will create microcontent throughout the year using Adobe Express to be shared in a digital portfolio. https://www.adobe.com/express/create/online-portfolio /. These digital artifacts can also be shared on social media throughout the year. Another option is to publish to MavMatrix through the UTA Libraries in an open-access format with metrics that can be tracked for views and downloads. Items are encouraged to be shared on social media (CRTLE) as well as on the CRTLE Pedagogy Next as a blog post.
NOTE: The PLC groups meets online (Teams) every other Friday from late October 24, 2025-end of March 2026 from 1:00-2:30 pm (CST). Only apply if you can commit to attending these sessions!
The PLC program is capped at 15 participants.
Deadline to apply for PLC: October 17, 2025 (5 pm, CST).
Start date: October 24, 2025 and alternating Fridays (1:00-2:30 pm CST)
The fall book selection will be Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by C. Edward Watson and José Antonio Bowen. The Spring 2026 book will be determined.
Benefits and Expectations:
Benefits
- Individual and group technical and pedagogical support and training
- Interaction with national and international leaders in the field of education
- Opportunity to experiment among supportive colleagues
- Connected conversation across disciplines about creating meaningful learning experiences
- Completers will receive a certificate, recognition email sent to their supervisor and dean, and will be recognized at the Faculty and Associates program in Spring 2026.
- Receive 1-2 books on the topic to keep.
- Networking luncheon
- Optional: Paid registration for Online Learning Consortium (OLC) online workshop (and ability to earn a certificate for course completion)
Expectations
- Engage and actively participate in biweekly Teams/virtual meetings per semester (or additional as needed for completion of project)
- Participate in group attendance and collaboration at a conference in the spring semester
- Collaborate and share ideas and experience with PLC colleagues
- Contribute written reflections on PLC activities through designated electronic format
- Conduct and complete a project, present project progress to PLC group, write a final report
- Present information and insight gained to the campus community through a spring campus conference and, if desired by participant, at national conferences
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