NEIU Libraries Research Guides: AI: Campus Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed: Professional Development

Inexpensive Options for Summer 2025

More Than Words Perusall Engage book event with John Warner
This 4-week, virtual asynchronous book club will begin on May 12 and includes perpetual access to the ebook More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI, written by John Warner. Cost of the ebook is $17.99.
Your Students Need an AI-Aware Professor
This recent article in the Chronicle highlights a number of books and newsletters to get up-to-speed with how students are (already) using AI.
"5 Tips" videos from Lance Eaton
AI in Higher Ed blogger Lance Eaton offers a series of brief video featuring use cases for AI in specific areas, like Human Resources, Academic Libraries, with Students, etc.

NEIU Teaching with AI Book Group

In Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, the CTL offered the AI for Teaching & Professional Practice: Faculty Learning Series.

Teaching with AI by José Antonio Bowen; C. Edward Watson
ISBN: 9781421449234

Publication Date: 2024

Participants will be reading this book and discussing it over a series of 5 virtual meetings from September through November.
It will be taught by Dr. Jen Banas of HSPE and facilitated by Dr. Liz Rodriguez of the CTL

For help accessing the ebook, either view this tutorial, scroll through the steps in your browser, or download a PDF.

Read a February 18, 2025 interview in Inside Higher Ed with authors Bowen and Watson

Also recommended...

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
ISBN: 9780593716717

Publication Date: 2024

This title has been ordered by multiple I-Share libraries, but some may not have yet received it. If your I-Share request is canceled, try WorldShare ILL (libraries outside of Illinois).

Chicago Public Library also owns multiple copies, though there is a hold line currently.

Asynchronous Online Learning

AI for Educators
by Microsoft
A series of 4 modules, estimated to take just over 4 hours, with an emphasis on Microsoft's AI tools
AI Hacks for Educators
from the University of Central Florida
An open access resource guide "offering 55 practical tips and strategies for integrating AI into academic life"
ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today
from the University of Central Florida
An open access resource guide with "over 60 practical assignment prompts and ideas across disciplines"
Dr. Jules White Interview: AI's Potential in Education
Dr. White is the professor from Vanderbilt University who has developed dozens of AI courses and specializations on Coursera.
If you complete just one, try the Generative AI Primer.
Have a little more time? Try Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT or Trustworthy Generative AI
Generative AI Courses on LinkedIn Learning
$ Membership required
Generative AI Tools for Creating Multimedia
by Nicole Hennig, formerly of MIT Libraries and now E-learning Developer at the University of Arizona.
Hosted by RAILS, September 10, 2024
Practical AI for Instructors and Students
by Drs. Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick
Wharton Interactive Crash Course
Professors at Play AI Playbook
by David Thomas and Lisa Forbes, founders of Professors At Play
An open access "collection of 17 AI tools with ideas for how to use them playfully in the classroom"
Tactics for Effectively Using AI in Higher Ed
by CHOICE
a podcast on creating hands-on AI learning experiences for students and educators
Teaching with AI
featuring Scott Rettberg, Anuj Gupta, and Jill Walker Rettberg
a Modern Language Association Professional Development Webinar