FSU faculty participating in the Office of Digital Learning’s (ODL) AI Sparks pilot program recently discussed their experience at the FSU Innovation Hub as part of the fall series of Faculty Innovator Coffee Chats. The AI Sparks pilot program, launched earlier this year, is a campus-wide collaborative effort to integrate AI literacy and applied AI learning [...]
Office of Digital Learning (ODL) team members presented recently at the Fall 2026 New Faculty Orientation, preparing instructors to use academic technology and describing the services and tools available through ODL. Around 125 incoming faculty members heard from Associate Director of Instructional Development Mary Eichin [...]
Connection and collaboration were the goals of the first in-person meeting of the FSU Instructional Design Community of Practice. After two virtual sessions, instructional designers across campus met in June at the Office of Digital Learning (ODL). The informal gathering was designed to strengthen connections, reflect on shared work, and spark [...]
The Office of Digital Learning (ODL) Chief Academic Technology Officer Robert Fuselier, Instructional Development Faculty Dr. Annette Jones and Liying Miao, and Instructional Technologist Christopher Riley presented recently at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Teaching and Learning with AI conference [...]
With the goal of integrating AI literacy and applied learning in undergraduate and graduate curricula, the Office of Digital Learning (ODL) launched the AI Sparks pilot program in the spring. Faculty participating in the pilot are developing AI Sparks, AI-based learning activities that are ready to use in Canvas [...].
An assistant professor of Measurement and Statistics at the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Dr. Hailey Kuang has training in both computer science and psychometrics. Her experience finding ways to integrate these two fields has carried over into her current [...]
In April, Office of Digital Learning Media Production Manager D.D. Garbarino and Media Technologist Jim Shaw attended numerous sessions and hands-on workshops at Post|Production World (PPW), a training conference held in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters [...].
Members of the Office of Digital Learning (ODL) instructional development team presented at the third annual ITS RISE Together Showcase in April. Held at the Turnbull Conference Center, the half-day conference focused on fostering collaboration to drive innovation across the university. Attendees [...]
A doctoral student in FSU’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Billy Holden Allen explores student perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI). He hopes to use his research to develop a framework for integrating AI with courses [...]
In the new year, you’ll notice a new format for the Distance Up Close newsletter. The emailed digest will feature article snapshots that link to our recently developed news webpage on the Office of Digital Learning (ODL) [...]
