Teaching the AI-Ready Spartan: Integrating AI-related Competencies into Your Course ***Drop-ins Welcome*** Online
As artificial intelligence reshapes higher education and the workforce, students need more than awareness, they need competencies that prepare them to use AI responsibly, creatively, and effectively. Employers are already signaling that graduates who can navigate AI tools with confidence, critical awareness, and ethical judgment will be more competitive in their fields. This workshop will help you define what AI awareness, literacy, and proficiency look like in your discipline, and identify practical ways to integrate these skills into your courses.
We’ll explore strategies for designing learning experiences, assignments, projects, and discussions that build AI competencies that also highlight the human-level skills still needed. You’ll also learn approaches for scaffolding student growth from introductory exposure to advanced application, aligning AI skills with learning outcomes, and assessing student progress.
Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will be able to:
- Define AI competencies (awareness, literacy, proficiency, mastery) in the context of higher education and their discipline.
- Identify discipline-specific applications of AI that students should understand or practice.
- Align AI competencies with course learning outcomes and program-level goals.
- Design classroom activities, projects, or assignments that develop students’ AI skills.
- Incorporate ethical, legal, and social implications of AI into student learning experiences.
- Select or adapt assessment methods to evaluate student AI competencies.
- Identify resources, tools, and partnerships to support AI competency development.
- Reflect on strategies for scaffolding AI skills from introductory exposure to advanced application.
- Date:
- Friday, August 21, 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Educator Network In-Class Educators Online Educators Quality Matters
- Categories:
- Curriculum Development Designing Courses EdTech Educator Networking Educator Onboarding Evaluation & Assessment Generative AI Improving Courses