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  • College of Dentistry Leverages Generative AI

    September 12, 2025

    Innovative tool provides students with real-time access to integrated, curriculum-aligned information at the point of care, enhancing both clinical decision-making and educational experience. 

  • AI Fluency at Ohio State: September 2025

    September 2, 2025

    OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
    SEPTEMBER 2025 

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    Provost Bellamkonda

    Welcome to the AI Fluency at Ohio State newsletter!

    Dear Colleagues,

    As we begin our bold, groundbreaking AI Fluency initiative to integrate artificial intelligence into the educational experience, we want to be sure you are aware of and engaged with the myriad resources the university has for faculty and instructors.

    Artificial intelligence is transforming disciplines, professions, and daily life — and our role as a university is not simply to keep pace, but to make sense of these changes in ways that matter to our students, our scholarship and the communities we serve. 

    This newsletter is one way we will help keep you up to date on the latest news and developments. 

    Please know that faculty and instructors will have broad latitude in how you use (or don’t use) AI in the classroom. We have produced a list of Frequently Asked Questions to help guide you. Additionally, we invite you to share how you have been engaging with and contributing to AI Fluency. 

    We look forward to taking this journey with you as Ohio State leads in educational AI.

    Ravi V. Bellamkonda
    Executive Vice President and Provost 

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    Introduction to AI embedded in Launch Seminar 

    This autumn, an updated Launch Seminar will introduce artificial intelligence, giving new Buckeyes an early start to exploring AI and building the skills to responsibly lead and innovate in today’s world. The updated seminar will serve as a space for students to start exploring AI and how it intersects with their academic and career goals.  

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    Ohio State, Google announce access to AI tools for students, faculty, staff

    Ohio State has expanded its suite of approved AI tools with Google Productivity Services, giving faculty, researchers, students and staff additional tools to enhance teaching, research and innovation.

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    Share your AI story

    We are actively finding ways to share, celebrate and support high-impact work related to AI Fluency at Ohio State. Fill out the survey in the link below if you are interested in sharing your work, and your lessons learned, with others. We would love to hear more about your experiences, challenges, ideas and advice for using AI in the classroom.

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    Opportunities

    AI Fluency Forum: Nov. 12

    Save the date for the AI Fluency Forum on Nov. 12. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ohio Union Performance Hall. Throughout the day, attendees will see tangible demonstrations and presentations from other faculty on: 

    • Teaching in AI: Teaching AI and its field applications
    • Teaching with AI: Using AI to enhance or optimize teaching and learning
    • Utilizing AI for Research: Applying AI in research, including ways it can inform the classroom

     

    Registration opens Sept. 15.

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    Teaching support for AI Fluency

    The Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning provides a range of resources and learning opportunities to build your knowledge and skills around AI Fluency. Available to all who teach at Ohio State, the offerings will guide you to make informed decisions about designing learning activities that incorporate AI, communicating transparent expectations for AI use and employing teaching strategies that promote students’ acquisition of AI knowledge and skills. 

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    AI courses for small business owners

    Ohio State’s Professional and Continuing Education is helping Ohio small business owners turn AI curiosity into practical skills with short, impactful online courses. Both courses are fully online, affordable and focused on solutions professionals can apply right away. 

    • Introduction to Generative AI — Learn how tools like ChatGPT can streamline tasks, improve workflows and support smarter decision making. No technical background required.
    • AI for Small Business: Customer Success — Discover how AI can create engaging content, analyze trends and boost customer satisfaction with less effort and more impact. 

     

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  • Introduction to AI embedded in Launch Seminar 

    August 23, 2025

    The Ohio State University’s new AI Fluency initiative, announced in June 2025, aims for the class of 2029 to graduate AI fluent. This autumn, an updated Launch Seminar will introduce artificial intelligence, giving new Buckeyes an early start to exploring AI and building the skills to responsibly lead and innovate in today’s world.  

    The Launch Seminar, part of Ohio State’s signature General Education Bookends experience, helps all first-year students explore their interests, build foundational skills, reflect on aspirations and connect with resources. Now, it also serves as a space for students to start exploring AI and how it intersects with their academic and career goals. 

    The Bookends team took advantage of a planned course revision to expand curriculum and incorporate elements of AI Fluency. Behind the scenes, work moved swiftly during the summer to develop foundational AI modules for the revamped course. More than 60 faculty and staff from across more than 10 units, including the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Pharmacy, the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning, University Libraries, regional campuses, Ohio State Online, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation and Undergraduate Education, contributed core ideas, wrote lessons, tested activities and built instructor resources to update and enhance the course, which included elements of AI. Thanks to their collaboration, this autumn, more than 160 Launch instructors across all campuses will be ready to support close to 5,000 students in developing foundational skills in AI Fluency. 

    What students will learn 

    The three new AI-infused Launch Seminar modules introduce students to what generative AI is and how it works, using AI effectively and ethically, and using AI thoughtfully throughout their university careers. The modules are tied to the six learning outcomes Ohio State expects all undergraduates to develop as part of the AI Fluency initiative. 

    Supporting instructors 

    To ensure a consistent experience across hundreds of seminar sections, Bookends instructors receive course training and resources. Shared guides, sample exercises, interactive modules, week-by-week lesson plans and supplemental materials provide a common foundation while allowing instructors to tailor activities to their students. Ongoing instructor support comes through a community of practice, with instructors collaborating in small teams guided by a team lead. 

    Aligning with the course’s emphasis on student-focused exploration of AI and its potential to support their learning and professional development, Bookends instructors are not expected to be AI experts. Instead, the course goals focus on providing students with foundational knowledge and resources to foster meaningful conversation and exploration.  

    By introducing AI early in their studies, Ohio State is giving first-year students a foundation to explore, question and use AI thoughtfully, setting them on the path to AI Fluency.  

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