JMU Libraries Offers Resources to Support Teaching, Learning, and Research with AI 

Posted September 14, 2024 in Educational Technology News, Featured News, Instructional Design News, JMU Libraries News

As generative artificial intelligence changes the nature of work, learning, and communication, higher education is only one of many industries grappling with its ethical and practical implications. JMU Libraries offers a variety of ways for faculty, staff, and students to learn more about AI, critically interrogate it, and use it appropriately in their work.  

We invite you to contact us for consultation or support, and to engage with the learning resources we’ve created and assembled here: 

• AI Literacy Course – a Canvas course for all JMU employees and students on the basics of AI, covering four competencies: awareness, capability, knowledge, and critical thinking.    

• Short courses, videos, articles and other resources on specific, AI-related topics, such as prompt engineering, provided to you through JMU’s subscription to LinkedIn Learning. Learn how to create your JMU LinkedIn Learning account. 

• Teaching & Learning with Artificial Intelligence – a module we designed especially for JMU instructors, added in Fall 2024 to our self-paced, online Design for Learning Institute. 

• Artificial Intelligence in Education – a faculty-oriented guide created by JMU Libraries to share best practices and help instructors explore the use of AI in teaching and learning. This guide includes sections like academic integrity, with sample syllabus statements and class assignments. 

• Additional, relevant JMU Libraries guides, like this one on Data Literacy and another on AI and Copyright (part of our larger guide to Copyright at JMU). 

• In-person and online workshops on Understanding, Applying, and Discussing Artificial Intelligence, developed by JMU Libraries staff and faculty. These launched in August and will be offered again soon.  

• Artificial Intelligence and You (2019) and Data Ethics (2021), two relevant online displays of books and other resources from our collections. 

• We also recommend this Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence from the Imagining the Digital Future Center, which provides a manual to help students “become skilled in using AI comfortably, effectively, safely and ethically.” 

As always, your JMU Libraries colleagues are here to help with your research, teaching, and learning needs related to emerging technologies and information literacy! Please reach out.   

With thanks to colleagues from all across the JMU Libraries, and members of the 2023-2024 Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.