Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping higher education, creating both opportunities and challenges for how we teach and engage students. Yet students are embracing AI tools in their lives before understanding the ethical, privacy, and practical considerations of their use. This gap offers educators a crucial opportunity to embed AI literacy into their teaching practices.
In this session, we will share the course design of “Arts&Sci 3120: Information, Citizenship, & Social Justice,” which uses open pedagogy for a semester-long textbook authoring project alongside two scaffolded AI assignments. These assignments guide students to use AI tools ethically and critically as they contribute content to their course project. In addition to learning how to engage ethically with AI by learning about ethics, privacy, and best practices, students also use tools like H5P, Hypothes.is, goblin.tools, and Pressbooks that offer transferable skills throughout the semester.
As AI pragmatists, our goal is to demystify the integration of AI into open pedagogy projects. Attendees will leave with adaptable templates for AI assignments, practical strategies for embedding AI literacy into their courses, and a deeper understanding of how to scaffold open pedagogy projects that empower students as creators. This session demonstrates how educators can align open pedagogy and AI with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to create inclusive, student-centered learning experiences.
To foster interaction and collaboration, we will use Mentimeter to gauge audience familiarity with AI and open pedagogy, and Padlet to help participants actively co-create a resource of guided questions and strategies, which they can revisit after the session.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Cultivate strategies for integrating open pedagogy and AI into assignments fostering critical and ethical engagement with AI tools.
Reflect on personal teaching practices to effectively incorporate AI literacy into instruction.
Understand how to scaffold an open pedagogy project throughout a course, providing students with opportunities to engage with AI responsibly.
Presenters will require projection capabilities for a PowerPoint presentation and microphones for accessibility. Attendees are encouraged to bring electronic devices for interactive participation.
Target Audience: Librarians and educators in higher education working with students on information literacy, pedagogy, and AI literacy.
