Overview
Responsible AI development and engagement isn’t something any single discipline or viewpoint can fully address. It demands collaborative approaches that span a wide range of technical, creative, business, scientific, and educational domains. This course empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply the AI Fluency 4D Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence) to their own educational practice.
Participants will learn teaching approaches for sharing the 4D Framework with students, assessment and assignment strategies for measuring AI Fluency, as well as considerations for how AI shows up in discipline specific curriculum topics.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the AI Fluency 4D Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence) and its role in helping students collaborate effectively, ethically, and responsibly with AI.
- Design teaching strategies and learning activities that integrate AI Fluency concepts into instructor-led courses.
- Develop assignments and assessment approaches that evaluate students’ AI Fluency, including outcome-based, process-based, and reflection-based methods.
- Adapt the AI Fluency framework to discipline-specific contexts, aligning AI use with the values, standards, and communication practices of different academic fields.
Recommended prerequisites
This course lightly covers the foundational AI Fluency concepts. However, for deeper understanding, participants should complete AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations before beginning this educator-focused curriculum.
It is also recommended that learners have active teaching or curriculum development responsibilities as well as access to an AI chat tool for hands-on practice. Examples in this course will use Claude.ai, but any chatbot will work.
Course Developers
This course is based on The AI Fluency Framework by Rick Dakan (Ringling College of Art and Design) and Joseph Feller (Cork University Business School, University College Cork), with content developed by Rick Dakan, Joseph Feller, and Anthropic (PBC), supported in part by the Higher Education Authority (HEA), through the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning; © 2025 and released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
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