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Artificial Intelligence in Education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing higher education by providing access to vast knowledge sources and new ways of thinking. Most employers expect graduates to have AI skills and experience. Acquiring continuous learning skills—learning how to learn—will serve you throughout your lifetime as AI evolves.

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Generative AI

Create new content such as text, images, or code in response to human input. Generative AI can act as your intelligent assistant to help both students and educators explain concepts, generate materials, and support personalized learning.

Creative AI

Produce original visual, audio, or multimedia content such as artwork, videos, music, or design layouts from simple text prompts or examples. Express ideas visually, experiment with design, and enhance storytelling, creativity, and digital literacy.

Embedded AI

Artificial intelligence features are often built directly into everyday tools and applications, including document editors, design tools, and communication platforms. Use these embedded systems to seamlessly support productivity, collaboration, and creativity within already existing workflows.

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Agentic AI

Agentic AI systems do more than generate content and respond to prompts. They demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and strategic reasoning and can autonomously set goals, make decisions, manage workflows, gather information, and analyze data, with minimal human intervention.

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Specialized AI

Unlike general-purpose AI, specialized AI systems are trained or optimized for specific academic or professional tasks, such as writing support, research synthesis, coding, or data analysis, to help you deepen your expertise and streamline focused workflows.

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Analytical AI

Analyze data, identify patterns, and generate insights to support decision-making, research, and learning. Analytical AI can help you interpret large data sets and complex information, such as learning outcomes, recognize correlations, and make data-informed improvements.

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Open-source AI

These codes and resources of these artificial intelligence tools, models, and frameworks are publicly available for anyone to use, modify, and share. These systems allow you to explore how AI systems work, build custom models, and contribute to innovation in an accessible, transparent way.

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Using AI in Your Studies

A prompt is the instruction, question, or request you give to an AI tool. It’s how you communicate with AI systems. The quality of your prompt will often determine the quality of the AI’s response.

To create strong prompts:

  • Clearly state your goal and context.
  • Provide background and constraints.
  • Specify task instructions and output format.
  • Define the AI’s role, if needed.
  • Include examples or references.
  • Focus prompt to provide summaries first and expand as needed.
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  • Brainstorming: Use AI to generate ideas and new approaches.
  • Drafting: Let AI suggest ways to organize content for various audiences and purposes.
  • Revising: Have AI review drafts for tone, clarity, and vocabulary.
  • Editing: Use AI to check spelling, grammar, punctuation, and citation style.
    • Always remain the primary author, using AI to augment—not replace—your thinking.
    • Compare outputs from multiple AI platforms and select the best ideas.
    • Keep track of how AI was used, and cite its role following your assignment guidelines.
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  • Treat AI as a complement to your creativity.
  • Try AI tools for generating images, videos, and sound to inspire new ideas.
  • Experiment with AI for exploring styles and remixing content to gain fresh perspectives.
  • Use multiple AI systems, compare results, and mix them with your own vision.

  • Assess dataset quality.
  • Perform repetitive calculations and detect patterns.
  • Build predictive models and forecasts.
  • Visualize data with AI tools.
  • Solve advanced math problems.

  • Ask questions tailored to your knowledge, skills, preferences, and pace.
  • Create diagrams and organize class notes.
  • Assist with notetaking, translation, captions, speech-to-text, and accessibility.
  • Use AI tutors like Khanmigo or Quizlet for personalized learning support.
  • Quiz yourself on materials using tools like NotebookLM‘s study guide.

  • Check accuracy and sources, verify with reputable publications.
  • Assess logical flow and consistency.
  • Use AI output as inspiration, not a final product.
  • Always disclose when content is AI-generated.
  • Check for biases or stereotypes in AI results.
  • Avoid using copyrighted materials, logos, or styles without permission.
  • Never use AI to produce deepfakes or harmful, misleading, or exploitative content.
  • Never share datasets with AI tools if it risks the rights or privacy of others.
  • Do not share company or personal data with free AI tools.
  • Take your own notes—don’t rely solely on AI; process ideas yourself.