Teaching the AI-Ready Graduate: Integrating AI-related Competencies into Your Course ***Walk-ins Welcome*** In-Person / 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 assignments, projects, and discussions that build AI competencies while addressing ethical and societal implications. 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. By the end, you’ll leave with tools and examples to help your students become AI-ready graduates, equipped not just with technical abilities but with the workplace-ready competencies employers increasingly expect.
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:
- Thursday, January 8, 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- CTLI Rm W207 (Main Library, 2 West)
- Audience:
- Educator Network In-Class Educators Online Educators Quality Matters
- Categories:
- Curriculum Development Designing Courses EdTech Educator Networking Educator Onboarding Evaluation & Assessment External Partners Generative AI Hybrid Session Improving Courses In-person Session Online Session Special Topics
Participants will be expected to use ChatGPT and/or Copilot during this session. It is recommended that you bring a laptop with you and have some basic familiarity with prompting.
The in-person location for this session is the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Please join us in the Main Library, Room W207. For directions to W207, please visit the Room Locations page.