AI Resources and Support

Artificial intelligence technology has become increasingly sophisticated and readily available. We believe that educators can contribute to how this important technology is understood and used. We invite you to engage thoughtfully and attentively with this teaching guide as a way to learn about and positively influence the dialogue around artificial intelligence in education.

For instructors and teaching teams

We offer this guide to all instructors and teaching teams approaching the topic of generative AI tools in education, whether for the first time or as part of your ongoing engagement with the topic, in response to practical concerns that we heard from instructors like yourself. You don't need to be an expert or have prior experience with generative AI to use this resource, though you should have some understanding of or experience with teaching and learning in higher education contexts. We intend this guide to apply to any disciplinary area or teaching modality and to help you structure the work of integrating AI tools into your teaching practice.

Goals and scope of this guide

The goal of this guide is to help you make informed and intentional decisions about how you will use (or not) AI chatbots in your teaching practice and courses and conversations with students.

We cannot comprehensively address the complex topic of artificial intelligence in any short guide.  We have chosen to focus on the practical and pedagogical aspects of AI tools in the classroom. We will focus on generative AI chatbots in particular, but you may find the content here can also apply to other generative AI tools, such as image, media, or code generators.

Multiple instructional modules for flexibility

Each page of this guide contains one instructional module including content, practice tasks, and assessment activities.  Each module is a discrete and complete lesson that you can finish in a relatively short amount of time

Each module has specific goals and objectives:

1. Warming up to AI—Reflect on your emotional state and foster feelings of acceptance, curiosity, and motivation.
2. Defining AI and chatbots—Define common concepts and explain how AI tools work
3. Exploring the pedagogical uses of AI chatbots—Explore educational use cases, describe risks, and access and practice using chatbots.
4. Analyzing the implications for your course—Describe campus AI policy guidance, evaluate and analyze your course
5. Creating your course policy on AI—Draft a course policy on AI use for your syllabus
6. Integrating AI into assignments—Examine ways to integrate AI tools into assignments and activities used to assess student learning

Complete the modules with your colleagues

Learning together with others can deepen the learning experience. 

Facilitate an AI workshop based on these modules

Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning has also developed do-it-yourself workshop kits inspired by these modules. The kits expand upon the topics and strategies covered in these modules. Each workshop kit typically contains a resource list, sample agenda, promotional materials, slide presentation, facilitator's notes, key strategies, and an evaluation tool to assess learning and gather feedback.

• Defining AI for Educators Workshop Kit
• Exploring Pedagogic Uses of AI Workshop Kit
• Analyzing the Implications of AI Workshop Kit
• Creating an AI Course Policy Workshop Kit
• Integrating AI into Assignments Workshop Kit

Stanford Teaching Commons. This guide is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike)