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.
Explore GenAI+U: Student Learning Experience
This online learning experience equips UMN students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical understanding necessary to effectively and responsibly utilize generative AI tools in academic and professional contexts.
Explore GenAI+U: An Instructor's Guide to AI Literacy
This course is a guide for University of Minnesota instructors to navigate the transformative role of Generative AI in education, regardless of whether you plan to embrace these tools or simply wish to better understand their impact on instruction.
Resources list
Resources list
Teaching Resources
- GenAI + U: An Instructor’s Guide to AI Literacy course is a guide for University of Minnesota instructors to navigate the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in education. Participants must register via TrainingHub and will be granted immediate access to the Canvas course with a UMN log-in.
- Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity: Resources for Instructors course gives guidance for instructors on effectively addressing the challenges of GenAI in the classroom. It covers student engagement strategies, AI detection tools, citation practices, assignment design, and steps for responding to potential misuse.
- Example syllabus statements on the use of AI in academic classes, developed by the Senate Committee on Educational Policy
- Generative AI tools (Gemini, CoPilot and more) a resource from the University of Minnesota Libraries that gives general information on usage and citation
- Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) guides
- Academic and Technology Support Services (ATSS) 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
Compare AI Tools available at the University of Minnesota and see additional guidance for instructors for each of the tools listed below.
- Gemini: Guidance for Instructors a guide, developed by Teaching Support, for instructors on how to use Gemini within the context of teaching and learning.
- Gems in Gemini: Guidance for Instructors a guide, developed by Teaching Support, for instructors on how to use Gems in Gemini within the context of teaching and learning.
- NotebookLM: Guidance for Instructors a guide, developed by Teaching Support, for instructors on how to use NotebookLM within the context of teaching and learning.
- 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.
- Navigating AI @UMN, a resource developed in collaboration with systemwide partners brings together resources for faculty, staff, and students to responsibly leverage, and innovate with, AI in academic, research, and professional endeavors.
Tutorials For Students
- GenAI+U: A Student Learning Experience is a student-facing training was created to provide tools to be an effective, ethical, and responsible user of GenAI. Instructors may wish to share this resource with their students.
- Tutorial: AI tools and research (for students) is a 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.
University 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.
- 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.