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Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency

Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning

Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being integrated into the fabric of academic discourse. Developing AI fluency is essential for advancing teaching and learning capabilities (Kassorla, Georgieva, & Papini, 2024). Ethical and effective use of AI technologies is emerging as an essential skill that students must develop to live, learn, and work (Love, Niu, & Labay-Marquez, 2025). In addition to knowing how AI technologies work, students will need to be able to critique the accuracy of AI outputs, apply frameworks for ethical use and understand how AI is used in their future academic work or careers (UNESCO, 2024). 

The Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency endorsement provides a foundation for understanding how AI works, the impact of AI on teaching and learning, how to use AI ethically in university courses and programs, and how to identify ongoing sources of information about the evolution of AI in Higher Education. Participants will have an opportunity to apply what they are learning to design and communicate about assignments, assessments, and activities related to building AI fluency.

 

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Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain foundational concepts related to AI.
  • Define AI Fluency.
  • Describe Ohio State's AI Fluency Initiative.
  • Construct course policies related to AI use.
  • Identify ways to support AI fluency within a course.
  • Identify avenues for further learning. 

Participation Requirements

Participants must complete criteria in the following three components:

  • Core Programming: choose from asynchronous or synchronous options that address foundations of AI Fluency
  • Elective Programming: complete one of the elective programming pathways to further explore and apply ethical and effective use of AI  
  • Deliverables (submitted here following completion of required programming):
    • three separate documents (each formatted as a Microsoft Word file) including examples of uses of AI and a reflection

Details of programming and deliverables can be found in the "Program Elements" section below.

 

Verification

When all criteria for the endorsement have been completed (including core programming, elective programming, and deliverables), you will receive a completion of criteria certificate document via email. The final teaching endorsement application will require you to upload this document.  

Program Elements

Requirement

Experiences

Workshops are offered on a rotating basis.  Check our Workshops and Events page to see what's offered each semester.

CORE

Choose one pathway:

  • Pathway: Asynchronous course:
  • Pathway: Complete BOTH Synchronous workshops:
    • Supporting Student Development of AI Fluency
    • Teaching to Develop Fluency at Ohio State University
ELECTIVES

Choose one pathway:

  • Pathway: AI Book Club
  • Pathway: AI-Infused Course Design Institute
  • Pathway: Complete 3 AI Elective workshops from the following list:
    • Developing Assignments for Teaching about and with Generative AI
    • Developing Syllabus Statements and Course Policies in Light of GenAI
    • Information Literacy and AI
    • Steering into GenAI and SoTL/DBER
    • Using GenAI: Hands-on Practical Uses for Educators
    • Writing to Learn with GenAI
    • Your Choice (available to use for 1 of the 3 required elective workshops)
      • Complete a professional learning experience about teaching with AI in a specific field of study or instructional context (e.g., workshop or training offered by your academic unit, a professional organization, online training, etc.). Participants must provide details of the experience to receive credit.
DELIVERABLES

Complete all:

  • AI Syllabus statement and student communication plan
  • An assignment, project, or lesson plan for a learning activity that fosters students’ AI Fluency
  • A reflection on strategies for staying up to date with (a) general and discipline-specific tools and uses of AI, and (b) implications for teaching in light of AI

 

  

 

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Complete your required documentation.