Teaching with AI Resource Hub

As educators and academics, it’s no secret that the increased availability of generative AI content is changing how we prepare for, deliver, and assess educational experiences. To get started, we've curated resources in three categories designed to support different interests and levels of experience. Explore on your own or contact us for a consultation to discuss your personal teaching context.

AI Foundations for Educators

Get started with essential knowledge about AI, how it works, and some of the popular generative AI tools available like ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Co-Pilot.

Getting Started with AI: Basics and Beyond (30-minute video) by Columbia University
“In this 30-minute webinar from the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College, we explore the fundamental concepts of generative AI and share examples of various types of AI tools and applications, such as text, image, video, and voice generators. You will learn about the benefits and challenges of AI and be introduced to ethical considerations associated with its use. This beginner-friendly webinar offers the perfect entry point to understanding AI, providing you with the essential knowledge to begin exploring this technology.”

AI Primer (blog post) by Michael Webb
“The Generative AI Primer introduces readers to the evolving world of generative AI, with an emphasis on education. Covering popular AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini, it highlights both the potential of these technologies to enhance learning and the challenges they bring to assessment and integrity. Key topics include the importance of adapting curriculum, ethical considerations, and regulatory updates. This primer serves as a foundational guide for educators seeking to understand, implement, and responsibly integrate AI tools within their classrooms and institutions.”

Co-Intelligence (book) by Ethan Mollick
“Wharton professor Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence is a guide for navigating AI's impact on work and life. Mollick explores generative AI's unique ability to boost human intelligence, urging us to embrace AI as a brainstorming partner, tutor, or coach. With insights from leading teams and original research, he demystifies AI’s true value, arguing that its benefits will surprise us—helping knowledge workers and humanities majors more than coders. Co-Intelligence challenges us to master AI’s potential responsibly, fostering a future where humans and machines think together for the better.”

Interested in bite-sized content from the author? Check out the following resources:

Co-Intelligence: AI in the Classroom with Ethan Mollick | ASU+GSV 2024

Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts

AI and Student Engagement

Focus on how to bring AI into the classroom to enhance learning, support personalized instruction, and handle challenges around academic integrity.

Teaching with AI (book) by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
This practical guide explores how AI is transforming learning and challenging ideas of creativity, authorship, and education. It provides educators with research-backed strategies to integrate AI tools into teaching, from interactive learning to advanced assessments. By addressing issues like academic integrity and promoting critical thinking, this guide empowers teachers to prepare students for a world increasingly shaped by AI.
Interested in shorter reads from these authors? Check out these two bite-sized options:
- AI Detection Is a Business. But Should It Be Faculty Business?
- Is AI Finally a Way to Reduce Higher Ed Costs?
Where AI Really Shines (infographic) by the Center for Teaching & Scholarly Excellence at Suffolk University
Where AI Really Shines highlights key ways AI can support learning, from brainstorming ideas to refining content and enhancing comprehension. Designed to integrate into various stages of student work, it showcases AI’s ability to streamline tasks, foster creativity, and personalize learning, helping educators unlock AI’s full potential in the classroom.

Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools (collaborative document) compiled by Lance Eaton
This document is a collection of AI policies from various higher education institutions, showcasing a range of approaches to AI use in coursework. It offers educators examples to help shape their own policies, covering aspects like academic integrity, proper citation, and responsible use.

Elon's Student Resources (PDF guide) by AAC&U and Elon University
Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence offers college students a practical roadmap for using AI responsibly in academics and beyond. Covering essential tools and ethical practices, it emphasizes understanding each course’s AI policies, safeguarding originality, and developing critical skills for the AI era. This student-centered guide empowers learners to use AI as a supportive resource while honing personal creativity, problem-solving, and ethical decision-making.

AI for Educator Empowerment

Discover how AI can make your workload more manageable—whether you’re building course content, conducting research, or managing administrative tasks.

AI Toolbox for Academic Research and Writing (Document) by Laura Roberts The AI Toolbox for Academic Research and Writing provides instructors with curated AI tools to enhance academic work, focusing on each stage of research and writing. From brainstorming and outlining to citation and fact-checking, it recommends tools aligned with privacy standards and academic accuracy. The guide empowers educators to support students in leveraging AI thoughtfully, with guidelines for selecting appropriate tools and ethical practices tailored for the classroom.
Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT (Book) by Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos) Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT showcases Harvard-based examples and global educator insights to offer practical, pedagogically sound AI strategies for teaching. Levy and Pérez Albertos draw on their teaching experience to demonstrate ways educators can use AI to create engaging explanations, build skill-based chatbots, and inspire enhanced learning. This guide provides concrete methods for integrating ChatGPT thoughtfully and effectively into educational settings.  Check out this bite-sized content from the authors: Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT Podcast episode, Teaching in Higher Ed.

Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful (Article) by Ethan Mollick  Using AI to Make Teaching Easier & More Impactful provides instructors with five strategies for leveraging AI in teaching, offering research-backed prompts and techniques for tools like GPT-4. These strategies include creating tailored examples, generating diverse explanations, developing low-stakes tests, assessing student understanding in real-time, and incorporating distributed practice. Each method allows educators to streamline complex tasks, enabling more time for direct student engagement while enhancing learning through AI's support

Additional Resources

AI in Action: Suffolk Faculty Spotlights

Suffolk University faculty are pioneering innovative ways to integrate AI tools into their teaching and learning practices across disciplines. From creating AI-powered podcasts and custom GPTs to enhancing research skills and facilitating real-world projects with the Boston Celtics, these examples showcase how our educators are preparing students for a future where AI augments professional capabilities while maintaining critical thinking at the core.

ARKA SARKAR
Sawyer Business School
Course Title: MKT 898 - Consulting Project
“In our graduate Marketing capstone class, students work in partnership with the Boston Celtics. The projects are designed to help students increase fan engagement among Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences, specifically on YouTube and TikTok. This year, I've asked students to employ AI tools to simulate real-world sports marketing scenarios. For example: Leveraging AI, students are crafting rich, multimedia narratives that celebrate the heritage of the Celtics. This involves scripting and producing short documentary-style features, using AI to recreate historic game moments, and developing player profiles that resonate with fans on an emotional level. Students are integrating AI-generated imagery to produce multimedia presentations that tell the story of the Boston Celtics. These sessions have included peer reviews and discussions to refine and enhance their storytelling techniques.”
Student Feedback
“Really being pushed to work with Gen AI was great as it made us keep pace with the dynamic marketing landscape that we are all going to join once we graduate.”

"Critical thinking was paramount in developing our mock up designs using AI. It was very cool working with our "personal intern". Without critical thinking, the AI would not generate the result we were looking for."
JONGBYUNG JON
College of Arts & Sciences
Course Titles: Applied Microeconomics; Applied Statistics
"I use Google’s NotebookLM to create short podcasts based on my lecture notes. Primary targets of the podcasts are those students who missed the classes but they are also a good review before students start homework assignments. They are easy to understand (9th grade level) and available on Canvas.”
Student Feedback
“I was just listening to the podcast you sent us, and I am amazed! I can't believe how easy it was, and it made so much sense. It was very helpful, and I think many students will find it very beneficial. I was thinking of your examples during class, and I was connecting them with the speakers' words and explanations, and it was awesome! I hope you can make more of those, I'm a huge fan!”

“I think it's amazing something like this can be done already. AI podcasts has opened up a new way for me to study not just Statistics, but my other subjects as well.”
ANTHONY GENTILUCCI
College of Arts & Sciences
Course Titles: Computer Science I; Programming for the World Wide Web; Math; Discrete Math
“I’m using custom GPTs in my classes to tailor content and responses based on specific rules for each course. These rules guide how the GPTs answer questions—such as providing step-by-step explanations, using course-specific terms, or adjusting responses based on student queries. I also upload course materials so the GPTs can generate new practice problems, quizzes, giving students extra practice and guidance. Additionally, I’m collaborating with other department members to implement similar tools for their courses, helping them customize GPTs to match their specific subjects and teaching styles to better support student learning.”
Student Feedback
“Early feedback has been positive, with students expressing appreciation for having another tool to enhance their learning and support their studies.”
DAVID COLARUSSO
Suffolk Law School
Course Title: AI and the Law
“I turned my AI & the Law class into an exploration of AI tools and case law, leveraging custom GPTs to drive case simulations for current cases involving AI. See here. The most impactful use case so far comes from the fact that I have students "pre-read" cases by dialoguing with custom GPTs before reading them in full. They then share the transcripts of these convos with me. And for the first time, I can actually see how my students are thinking about a case as they engage with it for the first time. The insight is nothing short of revelatory.”
DARLENE MASSE
Sawyer Business School
Course Title: Introduction to Business Communication
“In my role as a Senior Director of Communications, I’m actively learning, exploring and leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. As an adjunct professor at Suffolk University, I’m sharing my everyday professional experiences with my students and using ChatGPT to speed up the content development and creative process for in-class activities. Gen AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we work, and it’s exciting to embrace these new productivity tools and share my insights with students.”
JEAN NEALON IWANICKI
Sawyer Business School
Course Title: Tax Research
“We invited the Suffolk Librarian to an early class to show us easy access to tax-specific resources so students can expand their own searches beyond Google and AI. Each week we explore a different tax topic and client scenario outlined in advance on Canvas that students prepare in advance to discuss in class. About 1/2 of the assignments require a pre-written submission either in the form of a tax memo or letter to a client (AI is permitted but must be identified and validated if accessed). Each week we discuss how we all identify and approach the fact pattern differently and we explore AI responses that are not always correct or even complete, especially in tax. Students share their search processes with the class and talk about what worked and what didn't. We talk about what helped students move forward in their research and how to improve our searches, questions, and next steps. Most importantly, we also talk about providing value by thinking beyond the initial prompts and considering next steps well beyond the current capabilities of AI but well within the possibilities of creativity of our students.”
Student Feedback
“I find that students really enjoy the opportunities to hear how different classmates approach our research problem sets. It's eye opening really when you hear how one student in class may approach a topic in a totally different way than another and how students digest the information that they find to help solve the tax puzzles put before them. I think this approach also helps to encourage and drive students to explore not just one, but multiple options and routes to create an informed search, incorporating and combining AI generated searches, IRS.gov, and our generous Suffolk Library tax resources.”