Jonathan McMichael
AI Learning Solutions Specialist at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University.
AI may be reshaping how higher education works — but not what it's for. Currently, my job is to develop ways that artificial intelligence supports our educational mission: built on what we know about how people grow, and anchored in the aspirations of a comprehensive public university.
What I'm working on
My current focus at ASU and beyond.
AI Specialist, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University. Co-leading the AI Academy — a faculty development program for thoughtful AI integration in teaching and research.
Faculty Mentor, AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and Curriculum. Focused on the practical and ethical integration of agentic AI in higher education.
- AI Academy — Faculty development program for AI integration across The College.
- VibeCheck — Student learning-reflection app with AI-powered insights.
- Learning Design Suite — Contributed 4 tools for learning objectives, module design, assignment language, and discussion prompts.
Recent work
All projects →- 2025
The College's AI Academy
A faculty development program improving AI literacy and building sustainable AI initiatives across teaching, research, and operations at ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- 2025
VibeCheck
A privacy-first platform that collects student reflections on assignments and generates AI-powered Learning Insights Reports, helping instructors see where goals and experiences align or diverge.
- 2024
LTH AI Development Team
Founded and led a development team at the Learning and Teaching Hub (LTH) at ASU's Fulton Schools of Engineering that created an AI tool development process and built a suite of instructional design tools — now a permanent team continuing to integrate AI into course design, student evaluation, and learning workflows.
- 2023
Generative AI and the College Research Paper
Early development of training, best practices, and policy recommendations for accommodating ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies in the college classroom.