This guide has been modified from a Libguide originally created with an attribute license by University of Arizona Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This guide was last updated January 2025.
If you want to explore how to incorporate AI into your teaching this is an excellent place to begin!
AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching - A new Coursera course from Ethan Mollick. Free to audit. Topics covered include:
There are four modules. Each module includes a brief video, recommended readings, and an exercise using a custom GPT. Learn how to invite the AI to help you complete a task; create a customized draft prompt for an AI Teaching Assistant that aligns with your teaching style and needs; create a customized AI tutor for a concept you want to teach; create custom chatbots, or GPTs, that you can assign to students to help them practice core skills.
This guide focuses on generative AI. It only covers AI that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. Examples: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Eleven Labs, and more.
Students may be interested in the AI Guide for Students.
AAC&U and Elon University recently released a free digital guide designed to help students navigate college in the AI era. This new resource offers practical advice on using AI responsibly, ethically, and effectively, along with tips for students’ AI use in college and life after graduation. Share this free guide with your students!
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AI-U/v1.0: A Student Guide to Navigating College in the Artificial Intelligence Era |
If you are new to the practice of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, these short videos provide a useful introduction.
Practical AI for Instructors and Students (10 to 12 minutes each)
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Brief tutorials from the University of Arizona Libraries. Total time to complete all four, approximately 30-40 minutes.
ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. We've created this guide for use with students.
AI literacy is the ability to:
From a 2020 paper, by Long and Magerko, who synthesized a variety of interdisciplinary literature into a set of core competencies.