AI Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT):Guide For Instructors

We also offer a Student Guide to ChatGPT.

This guide focuses on generative AI

We cover only AI that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. Examples: ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Midjourney, Runway.

Last updated on September 5, 2025.

We aim to keep this guide up to date. But since new developments are happening so quickly, it's possible this may be out of date when you read it.

If you are new to the practice of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, these short videos provide a useful introduction.

Practical AI for Instructors and Students (10 to 12 minutes each)
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• Part 1: Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students
• Part 2: Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Part 3: Prompting AI
• Part 4: AI for Teachers
• Part 5: AI for Students

Additional trainings for faculty about A.I.

• AI Pedagogy Project - Harvard University

  Created by the metaLAB (at) Harvard, this guide provides teaching and learning to educators.
• ChatGPT and AI in Higher Education Quick Start Guide - UNESCO

  Published in 2023, this UNESCO quick start guide seeks to contextualize ChatGPT in educational settings.
• AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching - Wharton Online & OpenAI

  Wharton Online and OpenAI collaborated to offer a free course through Coursera to explore leveraging ChatGPT in teaching and education.
• ChatGPT for Educators - Bron Eager

  A free beginners guide course to ChatGPT and using AI technology in teaching. Created by Bron Eager, a senior lecturer at RMIT University.

   

  Elon University and AAC&U published a Student Handbook  - 

   

AI literacy is the ability to:

• critically evaluate AI technologies
• communicate and collaborate effectively with AI
• use AI as a tool, online, at home, and in the workplace

Since 2023, there have been a plethora of papers and ideas regarding AI Literacy:

• Digital Education Council AI Literacy Framework  Digital Education Council

• A Framework for AI Literacy  Educause
• AI competency framework for student UNESCO

Contact us or look up the librarian for your college/department.