AI @ OWU

• OWU AI Policy
  This is OWU’s AI policy, approved in spring, 2026.
• OWU AI Guidance(Opens in a new tab)
  This living document provides guidance for faculty, staff, and students on AI issues.
• AI Syllabus Guidelines(Opens in a new tab)
  This document has suggestions for syllabus policies, in-class conversations about AI, and AI disclosures.
• OWU AI LibGuide
  This LibGuide provides a general introduction to generative AI tools, a breakdown of the ethical considerations for using these tools, resources for faculty and students on how to use these tools responsibly, and guidelines for citing the use of AI tools in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. This resource will be updated frequently as the nature of generative AI tools continues to evolve.
• OWU Faculty AI Toolkit(Opens in a new tab)This page includes resources and information to help faculty with AI issues in their courses, including syllabus guidelines and suggestions.
• AI Workshops & Webinars
  These are recordings of Smith Center AI workshops and external webinars focused on AI & Education.
• Building Academic Integrity in the Classroom
  This document includes specific strategies to help you build stronger academic integrity in your class.
• OWU AI Day | 2026 Participant Folder

General AI Information

• AI Index by Stanford –“Unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data”
• AI Now – “An Independent research institute providing expert analysis on AI in the public interest”

AI Risks

• Impact Risk: Vocabulary for AI risks
• What uses more: An app for “comparing environmental footprint of digital tasks” 
• MIT AI Risk Respository: “Data and frameworks on AI Risks”
• Algorithmic Justice League – A “movement towards equitable and accountable AI.”
• Pressing Prompts – Resources on AI issues

Resources for Faculty Teaching With AI

• AI Guide for Faculty (Faculty Focus)
  This guide provides a discussion of AI approaches, strategies for fostering critical thinking and authentic learning, and AI integration strategies that foster learning.
• From Substitute to Support: Helping Students Use AI Wisely (Faculty Focus)
• CIC AI Ready Program for Faculty
• Automatedteach
  A nice set of practical resources for faculty including Course Design Bot, a chatbot he created to help faculty design classes & educational material
• Prompt Library
  Help you use AI effectively in your teaching preparation or with your students
• Redesigning Assessments
  A set of supportive questions to help you redesign your assessments in light of AI
• Educating AI
  A great resource for current AI news developed by Nick Potkalitsky
• Podcast: Revisiting A Curated AI Framework
  Marc Watkins advocates we spend time talking with students about the learning outcomes and how some uses of AI support their ability to meet the learning outcomes.
• DEER Framework
  A framework created by Cummings, Monroe, and Watkins for integrating AI use in first-year writing in ways that increase critical thinking.
• Learn with AI
  A set of resources and strategies that can be helpful to teachers. 
• The Depth Drill Bot – by Adam Pryor
  An essay and then the specific prompt instructions to create a bot that drills students’ thinking. 
• How to Teach with AI – by Doan Winkel
  A Substack full of resources for teaching with AI
• Excerpt of AI Prompts from ‘Teaching: A Spell Book’
  Cynthia Alby has ready-made AI prompts that are useful for a wide variety of teaching purposes, from your own planning to student supplemental support.
• Excerpt of Recommended Reading and Listening
  This is Cynthia Alby’s list of recommended reading/listening on AI issues in Higher Education.
• Exploring AI Pedagogy
  On this community page sponsored by MLA-CCCC (English) task force on AI, you will find a lot of example activities faculty have used related to AI.

AI Articles

• Synthesis of AI Pedagogy
  A brief research bibliography of AI Pedagogy.
• AI Article Summaries
  Summaries of articles from three perspectives: Positive, negative, and analytical.
• Exploring AI Pedagogy
  A crowd-sourced site that has a lot of creative ways that teachers have used AI in specific assignments. This is a great resource for getting ideas that have worked in other contexts. 
• Redesigning Assessments in an AI era and Changing Assessments in light of AI
  These sites help you to think through important questions about your assessments and how students might use AI inappropriately. 
• Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not if We Use it Right – 2025
  A blog article on using AI to increase students’ critical thinking.
• Using AI tools to develop critical-thinking skills (Chronicle of Higher Education) – August 2024
  “This week, I describe one professor’s experience teaching with AI and point you to resources to help prime your teaching for fall.”
• How Higher Ed Can Adapt to the Challenges of AI (Chronicle of Higher Education PDF) – July 2024
  An article on physical/social/mental effects of AI “The most straightforward way to construct a comprehensive accounting of the human experience of AI is to consider it with reference to three different aspects of our selves: the physical, the cognitive, and the social selves. AI is changing our experience in all of these categories.”
• Engaging Students and Staff in AI (PDF) – 2024
  “This paper explores the possible advantages of AI, sets out a model for conducting AI in [Higher Education] and works through an example of its application to promote inclusivity in a successful Institute of Education (IoE). The example is explored through the different perspectives of those involved in running the process; an educational developer, three student researchers and two IoE academic staff.”
• AI and the Case for Project-Based Teaching (Chronicle of Higher Education) – August 2024
  This article provides course design solutions to counter AI influence
• ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College (Atlantic essay) – 2024