NIC AI Guidelines

Hav­ing a good foun­da­tion of knowl­edge and skills is essen­tial for all col­lege employ­ees and stu­dents. While NIC devel­ops its own train­ing mod­ules, here are some excel­lent overviews from oth­er insti­tu­tions and peo­ple to help you get start­ed. They are all free and open­ly acces­si­ble.

Interactive Crash Course: Practical AI for Instructors and Students — Link to Playlist

Cred­it: Whar­ton School, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia

Descrip­tion: In this five-part course, Whar­ton School Inter­ac­tive’s Fac­ul­ty Direc­tor Ethan Mol­lick and Direc­tor of Ped­a­gogy Lilach Mol­lick pro­vide an overview of AI large lan­guage mod­els for edu­ca­tors and stu­dents. They take a prac­ti­cal approach and explore how the mod­els work, and how to work effec­tive­ly with each mod­el, weav­ing in your own exper­tise. They also show how to use AI to make teach­ing eas­i­er and more effec­tive, with exam­ple prompts and guide­lines, as well as how stu­dents can use AI to improve their learn­ing.

A Generative AI Primer — Link

Cred­it: JISC — a UK research leader in edu­ca­tion and tech­nol­o­gy

Descrip­tion: A fre­quent­ly updat­ed sin­gle web­page of the essen­tial details about GenAI

AI in Education — LINK

Cred­it: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney, Aus­tralia

Descrip­tion: Open/Free Course for Stu­dents and Fac­ul­ty via Can­vas Plat­form

A resource built by stu­dents for stu­dents about how to use GenAI respon­si­bly in post-sec­ondary edu­ca­tion. Take it your­self and then share with your stu­dents!

 

Are you AI Ready? Investigating AI Tools in Higher Education — Faculty Guide — Link

Cred­it: Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Dublin, Ire­land

Descrip­tion: An open “press­books” guide for high­er edu­ca­tion instruc­tors. An inter­dis­ci­pli­nary project team, com­pris­ing fac­ul­ty, staff, and stu­dents from two Col­leges in Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Dublin (UCD), came togeth­er in April 2023 to col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly work on a SATLE fund­ed project with the fol­low­ing aims:

  • Under­take a crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the cur­rent use of high-pro­file (Chat GPT, Bing etc) AI appli­ca­tions with­in three UCD schools, using the Dig­Comp 2.2 com­pe­ten­cies frame­work.
  • Use find­ings of this eval­u­a­tion to co-devel­op a col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly designed online ‘AI Readi­ness’ resource for fac­ul­ty and stu­dents.
  • Co-devel­op an AI dig­i­tal capa­bil­i­ties matrix the con­tex­tu­al­iza­tion of the ‘AI Readi­ness’ resources across dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines in the uni­ver­si­ty.
Coursera Courses on Generative AI — LINK

Cred­it: Cours­era

Descrip­tion: A num­ber of cours­es led by Dr. Jules White, Pro­fes­sor, Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty on gen­er­a­tive AI. He has some of the most popular/highly reg­is­tered cours­es with Cours­era on teach­ing and learn­ing. You can sign up for free and take a course if with­in the 7‑day free tri­al peri­od. You need to cre­ate an account.

Sug­ges­tion:

Gen­er­a­tive AI for Edu­ca­tors and Teach­ers Spe­cial­iza­tion (Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty) — which includes four cours­es (Gen­er­a­tive AI Primer, Inno­v­a­tive Teach­ing with Chat­G­PT, GPT Vision: See­ing the World through Gen­er­a­tive AI, Trust­wor­thy Gen­er­a­tive AI)

AI 101 for Teachers — Link

Cred­it: Part­ners Code.org, ETS, ISTE and Khan Acad­e­my are offer­ing engag­ing ses­sions with renowned experts that will demys­ti­fy AI, explore respon­si­ble imple­men­ta­tion, address bias, and show­case how AI-pow­ered learn­ing can rev­o­lu­tion­ize stu­dent out­comes.

Descrip­tion: This is a free, foun­da­tion­al online learn­ing series for any teacher and edu­ca­tor inter­est­ed in the ground­break­ing world of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and its trans­for­ma­tive poten­tial in edu­ca­tion.

Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes — PDF

Cred­it: Abeg­glen, S., Ner­antzi, C., Martínez-Arbole­da, A., Karat­siori, M., Ate­nas, J., & Row­ell, C. (Eds.) (2024). Towards AI Lit­er­a­cy: 101+ Cre­ative and Crit­i­cal Prac­tices, Per­spec­tives and Pur­pos­es. #cre­ative­HE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11613520

Descrip­tion: PDF doc­u­ment

Books

Teach­ing with AI — A Prac­ti­cal Guide to a New Era of Human Learn­ing by Jose Anto­nio Bowen and C. Edward Wat­son (April 2024)

Co-Intel­li­gence: Liv­ing and Work­ing with AI by Ethan Mol­lick (April 2024)