Winter Institute on Learning 2025:
Exploring, Incorporating, and Teaching AI Literacy in UD’s Degree-Granting Programs
We have reached capacity for this event and registration is closed.
The 2025 Winter Institute on Learning will occur on January 14-16 (Tue-Thur), in-person in Newark. It will focus on teaching AI literacy in degree-granting programs at UD with a secondary focus on assessing that learning. As educators, we have a responsibility to help students begin to understand and use relevant tools and concepts from our discipline. Moreover, we also have some responsibility to help our students prepare for their future as productive citizens in an increasingly complex world. Although AI – not just large language models – is not dramatically changing all disciplines, it is increasingly impacting our lives in unexpected and unpredictable ways. Many faculty have begun to address and incorporate AI literacy and competency into courses, especially in the past two years, but many have not yet had sustained, organized discussion about whether and how AI should be systematically incorporated or addressed in degree-granting programs, including program educational goals and curricula.
This institute aims to provide support, materials, and time for teams of faculty to hold those discussions and begin making appropriate plans for the incorporation of AI literacy in degree-granting programs, including program educational goals and program learning assessment plans. It will use “AI literacy” as a key concept and provide attendees with AI literacy materials and ideas that we hope are instructive and useful. To the best of our ability, we will also provide discipline-specific materials and examples. Although the institute will naturally touch on how AI literacy can be taught in specific classes, the primary focus will be on determining where that should occur throughout an entire degree program and not solely on redesigning individual courses and assignments.
Participants who successfully complete the institute will be able to:
- Identify AI literacy concepts and materials that are relevant to their discipline(s), academic program(s), and assessable educational goals
- Adapt AI literacy concepts and materials for their academic program(s)
- Develop a plan for collaborating with colleagues to appropriately infuse AI literacy into relevant courses and educational experiences
We understand that some attendees may, after carefully considering the changing landscape of artificial intelligence, their disciplinary values, and the resources available in their program, decide that this should not be directly and systematically addressed in their specific program educational goals and curricula. They may instead recommend alternative approaches, including broader institutional approaches that include AI literacy in undergraduate courses required by UD’s general education program. This institute will also support faculty who choose to write and pursue those kinds of recommendations and approaches.
A preliminary plan for the institute:
- Day One (Tuesday, January 14): Exploring and incorporating AI literacy
- Overview of AI in teaching and learning at UD
- Keynote speaker: Jane Southworth, PhD, University of Florida
- Overview of program educational goals and assessment at UD
- Introduction of AI literacy
- Exploration of AI literacy in program curricula
- Day Two (Wednesday, January 15): Teaching AI literacy
- Demos and discussion of AI-literacy activities, resources, and examples
- Examination of program curricula to implement AI literacy activities
- Day Three (Thursday, January 16): Assessing AI literacy and reflecting
- Exploration of how AI literacy can be assessed
- Reflection and post-institute planning
Registration for the institute is closed. Registrations must have come from small groups (2-5) of University of Delaware faculty members who teach in one or more specific degree-granting programs (undergraduate or graduate).
Please direct questions to Andrew Jenks, CTAL Educational Assessment Specialist, at ajenks@udel.edu