Topic: Teaching and learning
Blog Post
March 3, 2026
Incorporating Environmental Perspectives into AI Literacy
Announcing a New Mellon-Funded Project
The energy and material demands behind artificial intelligence (AI) technology raise serious questions about the environmental impacts of widespread AI adoption. Understanding these environmental-related consequences is an important component of what it means to be AI literate. Within the sphere of higher education, colleges and universities are launching initiatives to help students, faculty, and staff attain higher levels of AI literacy. Many AI literacy frameworks already call for competency in the societal and environmental impacts of AI technologies. However, tracking…
Past Event
March 11, 2026
AI in Higher Ed:
Who’s Being Heard, Who’s Not?
As AI becomes increasingly central to higher education, whose voices are shaping the conversation? This interactive meet-up at SXSW EDU 2026 invites educators, students, academic leaders, and more to share authentic experiences and challenges around AI adoption and workforce readiness. Led by Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas and UBaltimore’s Julia Goffredi, we’ll explore how to ensure student and faculty perspectives are included in decision-making, identify gaps in current conversations, and brainstorm practical strategies for building more inclusive, responsive AI initiatives…
Upcoming Event
April 15, 2026
Supporting Faculty in Integrating AI Into Their Teaching
At the AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success, Ithaka S+R’s Michael Fried, Nathan Kelber, and Zhuo Chen will facilitate a roundtable discussion on supporting faculty in integrating AI into their teaching. The conference is scheduled to take place on April 15-18, 2026.
Past Event
November 20, 2025
Emerging Trends in AI and Higher Education
On November 20 at 1:00pm ET, Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger participated in a virtual panel on emerging trends in AI and higher education, hosted by the University of Tennessee Library through their AI Series.
Blog Post
November 5, 2025
AI Literacy in Higher Education
Building from the Bottom Up
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education is happening almost always from the ground up.
Blog Post
October 23, 2025
The Value of Skepticism in the Age of AI
Although generative AI literacy frameworks can be quite varied, all suggest that users bring a critical eye to what LLMs produce. Instructors must internalize this critical lens on AI outputs in order to convey that same inherent skepticism to their students. With this healthy skepticism in mind, it is key to understand when and how generative AI can enrich teaching and learning.
Blog Post
October 17, 2025
A New Cohort Project Focused on Centers of Teaching and Learning
While the rapid evolution of generative AI is transforming teaching and learning in higher education, many instructors face this shift without clear frameworks or shared strategies, placing pressure on centers for teaching and learning to develop new programming. This challenge is at the heart of a new Ithaka S+R cohort project in collaboration with the California State University (CSU) system, “Teaching and Learning with AI.” The project kicked off in September, connecting CSU centers for teaching and learning interested in…
Past Event
October 29, 2025
Ctrl+Alt+Innovate
Transforming the Curriculum with AI
Integrating AI into undergraduate education requires contributions from across the university. In a roundtable discussion at the Educause Annual Conference 2025, Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger will join Benjamin Brand, Jan Lewis, and Kimberly Acquaviva to share how they are using AI and the unique contributions they can make to university goals related to AI. They will also discuss opportunities for collaboration across the university to support teaching and learning with and about AI. The session is scheduled for October…
Past Event
September 18, 2025
GAI and Our Classrooms
In a webinar hosted by Princeton University’s McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning, Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas and Dylan Ruediger will present findings from their research on generative AI’s impact on college teaching and learning, alongside Sami Kahn (Executive Director of the Center on Science and Technology, Princeton University). This session is scheduled to take place on September 18 at 4:30pm. Learn more about the event.
Blog Post
September 3, 2025
Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula
Third Cohort Launching September 2025
In September 2025, we are convening a new Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula cohort to help colleges and universities move from ad hoc experimentation to sustainable, curriculum-integrated practice. Building on the momentum of our spring activities with 45 participating institutions, we will apply the same cross-campus approach that centers collaboration between libraries and educators, helping translate research into practical, shareable models. Our reflections from the spring cohort meetings captured a landscape of both progress and fragmentation. Some…
Blog Post
August 6, 2025
PanelPicker Is Open for SXSW EDU 2026
Vote Today
Over the past several years, we’ve had the opportunity to present at SXSW EDU on a range of topics. It’s a wonderful place to learn from our community and forge new connections. This year, in collaboration with some of the organizations we work with, we submitted four proposals—on AI, first-generation students, and transfer. If you would like to see us in Austin, vote now! AI in Higher Ed: Who’s Being Heard, Who’s Not? (Meet-Up) Speakers: Claire Baytas and…
Past Event
August 26, 2025
Making AI Generative for Higher Education
Products and Uses
At the IDEA Institute for AI, Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas will give a keynote talk on “Making AI Generative for Higher Education,” discussing products and uses for AI. The session will take place on August 26 at 9:00am ET. See the full schedule to learn more.
Past Event
September 10, 2025
The Chronicle’s Strategic-Leadership Program for Deans
Executive-Level Skills for Leading Through Tubulence
Ithaka S+R’s Martin Kurzweil will be leading a program alongside Carolyn Dever, George Justice, and Liz McMillen for the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Strategic-Leadership Program for Deans will involve discussions and workshops about the leadership roles of college deans and how to navigate the changing landscape of higher education, with seminars and workshops on fundraising, crisis management, networking, and much more. Register and learn more about the event, scheduled for September 2025.
Blog Post
June 17, 2025
Expanding AI Literacy Integration
Fall 2025 Cohort
Building on success, scaling impact Earlier this spring, we kicked off two cohort projects on AI literacy with 45 colleges and universities. In the months since we first announced the cohorts, the urgency of AI literacy integration has only grown. Students increasingly expect their institutions to prepare them not just to use AI tools, but to understand their implications, limitations, and ethical considerations. Faculty are seeking concrete guidance on how to incorporate AI literacy into their courses meaningfully. And…
Blog Post
June 10, 2025
Applying AI Literacy to Student and Faculty Personas
Insights from our AI Literacy Cohort Workshops
This May, we hosted the first workshops for our Integrating AI Literacy in the Curricula cohort, a group of 45 colleges and universities committed to promoting AI literacy as a core learning outcome on their campuses. In the first half of the workshop, we facilitated a discussion of information literacy and AI literacy frameworks. In the second breakout session, participants selected one of six provided personas and hypothesized about the risks, benefits, and needs of AI use for…
Blog Post
June 10, 2025
Is AI Literacy the Trojan Horse to Information Literacy?
Insights from our AI Literacy Cohort Workshops
In April 2025, we launched the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula cohort project, in collaboration with librarians and educators at 45 colleges and universities, to conduct research on the current state of AI literacy and develop actionable pathways to providing effective AI literacy programming for students and faculty. In mid-May, we held our first cohort workshops to start thinking through AI literacy using shared language. After reviewing the ACRL information literacy framework and existing AI literacy frameworks,…
Blog Post
June 9, 2025
The Divided State of AI in Higher Education
To help libraries and centers for teaching and learning adapt their expertise in data, digital, and information literacy to AI literacy, we launched the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula cohort project. We held the kickoff meeting in April, welcoming participants from all 45 institutions involved in the project. Participants shared their observations and experiences with current AI literacy initiatives at their institutions, including challenges and successes. Several interesting themes emerged from these discussions. When it comes to AI…
Past Event
June 3, 2025
AI Summit 2025
Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas will speak at the University of Baltimore’s AI Summit 2025, which offers an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence’s transformative impact across sectors, with a particular focus on workforce development, educational adaptation, and responsible innovation. Learn more about the event, scheduled for June 3, 2025.
Past Event
June 2, 2025
The Chronicle’s Strategic-Leadership Program for Department Chairs
As a bridge between administration and faculty, department chairs have one of the toughest jobs on campus. Research experts at Ithaka S+R will join experienced academic leaders at Dever Justice LLC in a program hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education that will help guide new and experienced chairs through the challenges and transformative opportunities of their role. This series has been enhanced to improve the participant experience through greater scheduling flexibility and a more dynamic program format. This program…
Blog Post
May 1, 2025
Generative AI Adoption and Related Challenges in Higher Education
New Report Shares Findings of Cross-Institutional Qualitative Study
Today, we are announcing the publication of a new report detailing the findings of interviews offering insight on how instructors and researchers are using generative artificial intelligence in their work, as well as the challenges they currently face related to the technology. The study also reveals which support resources instructors and researchers are relying on and which resources they feel are still lacking.