Custom institutional faculty and staff development

Institutional AI Workshops

Select the topics that fit your institutional needs and combine them into a practical one- or multi-day experience for faculty, staff, academic leaders, students, or a thoughtful combination of audiences.

1 Practical, hands-on learning
2 Institution-specific design
3 Clear next steps after the workshop

Not a fixed agenda

Start with the change your institution wants to make.

The workshop is designed from a flexible session framework—not delivered as a generic sequence. We select and adapt the most useful components based on participant roles, AI readiness, current policies, disciplines, and the work people need to move forward.

The result: a shared foundation, relevant hands-on practice, and outputs participants can take back to their courses, teams, and institutional initiatives.

Investment: Workshops start at $15,000 per day. The agenda, topic mix, audience design, and number of days are selected to fit institutional needs.

Audience pathways

Choose a faculty experience, a staff and leadership experience, or a thoughtful combination.

Each pathway is adjusted to the work participants actually do. Mixed-audience workshops can begin together, move into role-based application, and reunite around shared institutional priorities.

Faculty option

Strengthen teaching, assessment, and student AI development.

Designed for faculty at any level of AI experience, from foundational fluency to advanced course and curriculum design.

  • Redesign an assignment, assessment, or course component
  • Create more transparent approaches to student AI collaboration
  • Apply critical-thinking and human-value frameworks to AI use
  • Build a practical next step for classroom implementation

Staff and leadership option

Improve workflows while protecting institutional judgment and values.

Designed for academic administrators, support staff, department chairs, deans, and leaders responsible for operations or institutional change.

  • Prototype an AI-supported workflow for a recurring task
  • Improve stakeholder communication, analysis, or scenario planning
  • Identify governance, verification, and accountability needs
  • Clarify a realistic team or institution-level adoption step
Combined option

Bring faculty, staff, and leaders into the same experience when the goal is shared language, cross-functional alignment, and a coordinated implementation path.

Session library

Build the workshop from the topics that matter now.

Select the topics that best fit your institutional needs. Sessions can be used as focused modules, extended workshops, or integrated threads across one or multiple days. Content, examples, activities, and timing are adapted for your institution.

Build shared readiness

Foundation, tools, and a sustainable learning culture

  1. Session 1 Foundation Building - AI Awareness to Partnership
  2. Session 5 Hands-On Tool Mastery - Platform-Specific Training
  3. Session 6 Faculty Learning Communities - Building Sustainable Practice and Culture Change

Transform teaching and learning

Integrity, assessment, critical thinking, and curriculum

  1. Session 2 Academic Integrity and Student AI Development
  2. Session 3 Assessment and Course Design Revolution
  3. Session 4 Critical Thinking Integration - Beyond Tool Proficiency
  4. Session 8 Advanced Course and Curriculum Design
  5. Session 10 Instructional Minimalism - Maximizing Learning Through Less Content
  6. Session 12 Beyond the Parrot - Moving From One-Answer AI Use to Critical Dialogue and Judgment

Advance institutional action

Operations, leadership, and strategic foresight

  1. Session 7 Administrative Excellence - AI for Leadership and Operations
  2. Session 9 Institutional Leadership - Scaling AI Integration Across Programs
  3. Session 11 Strategic Foresight and Iterative Learning Integration

Frameworks can include the Three-Tier Framework, Bloom-AI, transparent collaboration approaches such as the AI Assessment Scale, and the Foresight - Insight - Action process—selected only where they support the institution's goals.

A customizable workshop flow

Move from shared understanding to practical action.

This sample arc shows how an engagement can build momentum. The sequence, duration, and emphasis change to fit your participants, schedule, and desired outcomes.

Before the visit

Discovery and agenda design

Clarify audience readiness, institutional priorities, policies, tools, and the outputs participants should create.

Opening

Build a common foundation

Establish shared language, examine current opportunities and concerns, and frame AI as a partner requiring human judgment.

Morning

Practice with relevant tools and cases

Work hands-on in BoodleBox or the institution's approved tools using activities aligned to participant roles.

Afternoon

Design, test, and refine

Apply selected frameworks to a course, assignment, workflow, communication challenge, or institutional decision.

Close

Commit to the next useful move

Share work, identify verification and support needs, and leave with a concrete implementation step.

Delivery options

In person is the strongest format. Online is available.

Both formats are facilitated and practical. The choice depends on your audience, geography, schedule, and the kind of institutional momentum you want the engagement to create.

Remote

Online workshop

A strong option for distributed teams or schedule constraints. Online delivery uses focused facilitation, shared digital workspaces, breakout activities, and practical application.

Use BoodleBox—or build within the tools your institution already supports.

BoodleBox can provide a shared educational AI environment for structured workshop activities. When another ecosystem is already in place, the experience can be adapted to institutionally approved tools.

Options in the session framework include ChatGPT and Custom GPTs, Google Gemini and NotebookLM, BoodleBox, and specialized tools or LMS features. Tool choice follows institutional access, policy, and goals.

Begin with a planning conversation

Let's design the right workshop engagement for your institution.

Share the audiences you want to serve, the challenges you want to move, and the tools already in use. Inspire Higher Ed will recommend a focused, customizable workshop design.