Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, many educators have wondered how to best respond to and integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) in their teaching. The rapid proliferation and wide adoption of generative AI tools has made it increasingly clear that it is imperative to prepare our students to understand and thoughtfully employ them, in their academic coursework and beyond.
The Ohio State University has launched a university-wide AI Fluency initiative with the intent of embedding AI into the core of the undergraduate curriculum. Beginning this fall, the endeavor will support Ohio State students to understand AI tools and use them responsibly, effectively, and creatively—no matter their major or field of study. All learners will be given opportunities to develop the AI proficiencies they need to excel, innovate, and lead in their future careers.
AI fluency is the ability to understand, evaluate, and use artificial intelligence within academic and professional contexts, and to do so with ethical awareness and discipline-specific relevance.
The Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning provides a range of resources and learning opportunities to build your knowledge and skills around AI fluency. Available to all who teach at Ohio State, our offerings will guide you to make informed decisions about designing learning activities that incorporate AI, communicating transparent expectations for AI use, and employing teaching strategies that promote students' acquisition of AI knowledge and skills.
Current Resources and Offerings
Find guidance for addressing and integrating generative AI in instruction by browsing the Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC) or registering for an upcoming workshop.
TLRC Teaching Topics
The Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC) website is a cross-unit collaboration designed to help you enhance your teaching skills and support student success. Explore the following co-developed Teaching Topic articles on generative AI and teaching.
- AI Considerations for Teaching and Learning: Learn about generative AI and how to effectively incorporate it in your courses, with attention to learning goals and outcomes, transparency, and academic integrity.
- AI Teaching Strategies: Crafting Your GenAI Syllabus Statement: Customize these sample syllabus statements to communicate clear expectations for using generative artificial intelligence in your courses.
- AI Teaching Strategies: Having Conversations with Students: Explore strategies, conversation starters, and activities for openly discussing and exploring AI with your students.
- AI Teaching Strategies: Transparent Assignment Design: Learn how a transparent design process can simplify planning assignments that use generative artificial intelligence.
Drake Institute Workshops on AI
The Drake Institute regularly offers virtual and in-person workshops on a range of topics in teaching and learning. Register for one or more of our early autumn semester workshops on generative AI.
- Getting Started with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Considerations and Strategies
September 5 | noon – 1:30 p.m.
During this interactive session, educational developers from the Drake Institute and partnering units will answer questions about the implications of AI for teaching and learning, recommend strategies for incorporating AI into courses, and provide feedback on participants’ ideas.
- Designing Assignments for Teaching about and with Generative AI
September 19 | noon – 1:30 p.m.
This brief and engaging session on AI assignment design will feature short demonstrations of example assignments used for teaching about and with AI. Participants will also discuss additional uses for GenAI to support learning, instruction, and course design.
- Prompting for Teaching and Learning: Making GenAI Work for You
October 2 | noon – 1:30 p.m.
This interactive workshop will present a prompting structure and guide you to practice prompting generative AI to develop learning goals and outcomes, assignments, and rubrics.
More Opportunities Coming Soon!
The Drake Institute is expanding programs and resources to support the AI Fluency initiative. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements of a new asynchronous course and Teaching Endorsement.
Asynchronous Online Course: Building Students’ AI Fluency
A self-paced online course to support AI fluency will be launched this fall. Available to all who teach at Ohio State, Building Students’ AI Fluency will familiarize you with the university-wide AI Fluency initiative and the meaning and foundations of AI fluency. Learn how to construct course policies for AI use, effectively support students’ AI fluency, and find avenues for further learning.
Teaching Endorsement: Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency
The Drake Institute is developing a new Teaching Endorsement, Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency. Designed to support educators and programs to align instruction and curriculum to the AI Fluency initiative, participants will explore how to design learning experiences that build students' knowledge of generative AI, foster responsible and ethical AI use, and apply AI for discipline-specific purposes.
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