Lydia Elliott

Director of Faculty Development, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Lydia Elliott, EdD, is Director of Faculty Development at Carle Illinois College of Medicine, where she leads initiatives focused on teaching effectiveness, assessment design, and faculty growth. Her work examines how learning environments cultivate professional judgment, reflective practice, and durable expertise, particularly as artificial intelligence reshapes educational systems. She is the author of Experiential Intelligence, a framework describing the human capacity to assign meaning to information through lived experience, reflection, and accountable action. Dr. Elliott collaborates with educators and instructional leaders to design learning and assessment strategies that preserve the development of human expertise in AI-mediated environments. Her scholarship and writing explore the implications of AI, cognitive offloading, and experiential learning for higher education, professional training, and workforce development.