Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has exploded across the world and throughout the educational landscape, and with it come both opportunities and challenges. Here are a few key resources from across the University of Minnesota on how to best incorporate generative AI into your teaching practices.
Resources for Teaching and Learning with Generative AI
Resources for Teaching and Learning with Generative AI
Teaching Resources
- Example syllabus statements on the use of AI in academic classes, developed by the Senate Committee on Educational Policy
- Generative AI Teaching and Learning Resources, a curated list of resource regularly updated by the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI)
- ChatGPT and other AI tools, a resource from the University of Minnesota Libraries that gives general information on usage and citation
- Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) guides
- Extra Points: Level Up Your Digital Teaching, a blog written for faculty and instructors, has many posts about using generative AI in teaching and learning
Campus or College Specific Teaching Resources
- Teaching with AI Guide, a resource by the College of Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS)
- Teaching and GenAI Resources, a resource by the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)
- Artificial Intelligence at UMD, the University of Minnesota, Duluth, resource page on generative AI use in academics and work
- Guidance on Generative AI in Graduate Education, a graduate school resource
Guidelines around Tool Usage
- Artificial Intelligence: Appropriate Use of Generative AI Tools, a resource developed by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) about acceptable use of tools AI tools by all University members
- Zoom AI Companion - Guidance for Instructors, a guide for instructors developed by Teaching Support on how to use Zoom AI companion within the context of teaching and learning
- Microsoft CoPilot - Guidance for Instructors, a guide, developed by Teaching Support, for instructors on how to use Microsoft CoPilot within the context of teaching and learning.
- AI: Ethics & Efficacy (30 minute video), a video overview made by University Libraries, intended for faculty and graduate students at UMN, introduces some of the ethical issues and other risks that AI tools like ChatGPT present.
Tutorials For Students
- Tutorial: AI tools and research (for students)
This short video from the UMN Libraries introduces AI tools such as ChatGPT for undergraduates. The video briefly covers how AI works, how (and if) you can use AI for your research, plus some major concerns experts have about the current state of AI.
Community Groups
- Gen AI Community of Practice (AI iCoP): This is an informal group discussing Artificial Intelligence. Open to all University of Minnesota System Staff, Faculty and Students. Share articles, reading lists, professional development, teaching strategies and more via email.
- Teaching with AI Book Club: Join other staff, researchers, and faculty members in exploring generative AI by participating in an immediately, applicable, low-stakes, no-guilt book club.
- Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellows Program: The goal of this 18-month program is to foster a multidisciplinary learning community that uses generative AI in teaching practice and to promote the effective use and best practices of this emerging technology. Read what the faculty are finding in their explorations.