Integrating Generative AI into Post-Secondary Teaching Practice

Abstract

Empower your students to use AI wisely, not blindly.

This Open Education Resource (OER) equips educators with a classroom‑ready teaching module that helps integrate generative AI tools using Microsoft Copilot into learning with ethics, clarity, and critical thinking at the forefront, designed for immediate and ease of classroom adoption. This OER supports faculty building student capacity for responsible AI use. It offers a practical, adaptable framework that keeps human expertise at the center of teaching while preparing learners for an AI‑rich future.

The resource includes a full BOPPPS lesson plan, slide deck, student worksheets, and a research‑informed guide that supports ethical, transparent, and pedagogically sound AI use. Through structured I (interests) and Q (question) inquiry using, guided prompt engineering, and source‑validation exercises, students learn to interrogate AI outputs, recognize hallucinations, and reflect on ethical reasoning to their use of generative tools. Grounded in current scholarship on AI literacy, academic integrity, and critical thinking, this OER helps educators shift from policing AI to leveraging it as a catalyst for deeper analysis, evaluation, and creation. Adaptable across disciplines, it offers practical strategies for teaching with AI in ways that enhance learning and uphold academic values.