Develop your Teaching with a Micro-credential
FIU WAC offers micro-credentials that support faculty and students in embracing the critical skill of writing in a multilingual-majority university and incorporating high-impact practices into their course design and careers: "Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines" and "Teaching in the Age of AI: Assignment and Assessment Design." Faculty who successfully complete one or both of the micro-credentials receive a student-facing micro-credential they can embed into their courses to support students' disciplinary writing and writing with AI.
For both micro-credentials, we intentionally keep cohorts small so each participant can receive individual feedback and attention throughout the micro-credential. For this reason, we limit cohorts to no more than 25 faculty members each, despite the strong interest evidenced by the number of applications we receive each year.
Micro-credentials are open to all full-time FIU faculty from any discipline. Faculty are selected for participation through an application process.
Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines
In this course, faculty explore best practices in writing pedagogy along with current WAC scholarship with the goal of helping other faculty members develop effective writing assignments specific to their programs. Course topics include designing effective writing assignments, teaching with writing in the age of AI, responding to student writing and teaching students self-editing skills.
Embedded within the entire course is an awareness of our current technological reality. Faculty are invited to explore the ways in which they might use AI tools in their teaching with writing so that AI strengthens rather than replaces student learning and craft course policies that are specific to their course learning goals.
As a result of completing this micro-credential, faculty will be able to:
Describe best practices of teaching with writing in the age of AI
Recognize the literacy, linguistic, technological, and cultural resources students bring to our course
Apply various approaches for responding to and assessing student writing
Teaching in the Age of AI: Assignment and Assessment Design
This course enhances faculty AI literacy and prepares them to effectively adapt their teaching to our AI contxt. Course topics include AI-supported learning models, frameworks for designing and revising assignments to promote students' AI literacy, how to maintain and adapt the pedagogical best practices of scaffolding and transparent assignment design to our AI context, and approaches for assessing AI literacy and AI-infused writing assignments.
As a result of completing this micro-credential, faculty will be able to:
Use generative AI tools to prototype or revise a course-specific assignment that enhances student learning
Identify and apply frameworks for integrating AI into assignments
Design or adapt a rubric or assessment strategy that captures AI-enabled learning outcomes
Analyze and reflect on how generative AI is reshaping assignment design and student assessment
Writing in the Disciplines (student micro-credential)
Faculty who earn the micro-credential are qualified to integrate the student-facing “Writing in the Disciplines” micro-credential into one of their upcoming courses. This student micro-credential prepares students to write for a variety of public and/or professional audiences. It emphasizes the discipline-specific nature of writing and helps students learn to navigate writing conventions and expectations of their chosen disciplinary areas. It also helps students develop AI literacy so they can critically assess the accuracy, bias, and context of AI-generated text as well as question, evaluate, and interpret AI-generated content. Together, the faculty and student micro-credentials support WAC efforts to cultivate and sustain a robust culture of writing on FIU’s campus.
Testimonials from Faculty
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