Updated on September 11. 2025
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.
Building Students’ AI Fluency
An asynchronous online course
Our fully self-paced online course to help Ohio State educators support AI fluency has just launched! Available to all who teach at Ohio State, Building Students’ AI Fluency will guide you to redesign elements of your courses to promote AI fluency. It offers information on the AI Fluency initiative, provides foundational knowledge related to the AI Fluency outcomes, and addresses the role of critical thinking and academic integrity as students learn about and use AI for coursework.
Register for Building Students' AI Fluency
Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency
A new Teaching Endorsement
A newly available Teaching Endorsement, Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency, is designed to support Ohio State 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. You can customize your own endorsement pathway by selecting from core and elective learning opportunities.
Explore the Teaching Endorsement
Teaching and Learning Resource Center
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.
- 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.
- AI-Infused Course Design Institute: Apply by September 15, 2025.
September 30, October 3, 7, & 10 | 1 - 4:30 p.m.
During this AI-focused Course Design Institute (CDI), you will learn how to prompt generative AI to help you with course design tasks such as generating expected learning objectives, creating assignments, and developing rubrics. There will also be opportunities to reflect on and critique GenAI responses.
- Using GenAI: Hands-on Practical Uses for Educators
October 2, 2025 | noon - 1:30 pm
During this workshop, you will learn a prompting structure and practice prompting generative AI to help you create learning goals and objectives, create assignments, and develop rubrics. There will also be opportunities to reflect on and critique GenAI responses.
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